Edward Parry (14 January 1830 – 11 April 1890) was a Bishop of Dover

Bishop of Dover

The Bishop of Dover is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town of Dover in Kent...

  A member of a most distinguished family, he was educated at Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, Oxford

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 and began his ecclesiastical career as a Curate

Curate

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 in Norham

Norham

Norham is a village in Northumberland, England, just south of the River Tweed and the border with Scotland.It is the site of the 12th century Norham Castle, and was for many years the centre for the Norhamshire exclave of County Durham...

 . After a period as Chaplain

Chaplain

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 to the Bishop of London

Archibald Campbell Tait

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 . In 1863 he became Rural Dean

Rural Dean

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 of Ealing and in 1869 Archdeacon of Canterbury; and the following year the 4th Suffragan Bishop

Suffragan bishop

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 of Dover

Bishop of Dover

The Bishop of Dover is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town of Dover in Kent...

, 273 years after the death of the 3rd incumbent

Bishop

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. A monument to him can be found at Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site....

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Parry's son, Frederick Sydney Parry

Frederick Sydney Parry

Sir Frederick Sydney Parry, K.B.E., C.B. was a senior British civil servant.Sir Sydney Parry, deputy chairman of the Board of Customs from 1904 to 1909, and of the Board of Customs and Excise from 1909 to 1925...

, wrote the article about his father for the Dictionary of National Biography

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