Sir Frederick Sydney Parry, K.B.E.

Order of the British Empire

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, C.B.

Order of the Bath

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 (5 June 1861–22 May 1941) 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

Born on 5 June 1861, the second son of the Right Rev. E. Parry

Edward Parry (Bishop)

Edward Parry was a Bishop of Dover A member of a most distinguished family, he was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and began his ecclesiastical career as a Curate in Norham . After a period as Chaplain to the Bishop of London...

, Bishop Suffragan of Dover, Frederick Sydney Parry was educated at Winchester and at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1885 he was appointed to the Board of Trade, but the next year transferred to the Treasury and became in 1888 assistant private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which post he retained until 1892. From 1897 to 1892 he was private secretary to the First Lord of the Treasury. In 1902 he was made C.B., and he was created K.B.E. in 1925. He married a daughter of Dean Fremantle

William Henry Fremantle (Dean)

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, of Ripon, and had a son, William Edward (b.1894) and a daughter, Katherine (b.1895).

Parry died at Hove on 22 May 1941.