Joshua Parry

Background

Parry was born at Llangan, Pembrokeshire, on 17 June 1719 (Operating system). His parents died in his infancy.

Career

He was first taught by a private tutor at Haverfordwest, and then was a pupil of John Eames at the Fund Academy, Moorfields, where John Canton and John Hawkesworth were also students. In 1738 Parry went to live with John Ryland in Moorfields. Parry declined in 1748 an invitation to succeed Edmund Calamy at Crosby Square, London, and in 1757 and 1766 invitations to become assistant, and afterwards successor, to Samuel Chandler, of the Old Jewry dissenting church.

He remained at Cirencester until his death, on 6 September 1766.

He was buried in the ground attached to his chapel, where a plain stone without inscription marked his grave. She died in 1786.

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