Parrocel, Etienne, a French painter, was born in Paris about 1720. He painted historical subjects, but attained little reputation. He executed several scrip- tural works, among which was Christ on the Mount of Ollces. There are several etchings by him, in a bold, free style, among which is The Triumph of Mordecai (after De Froy). — Spooner, Biof/. Hist, (f the Fine Arts, ii, 658.
Parrocel, Pierre, a French painter and engraver, was born at Avignon in 1664. He received his first in- struction in art from his uncle Joseph, also a noted painter, after which he went to Rome, and studied un- der Marotti. On his return home he travelled through Langucdoc and the Provence, and left many valuable productions in sacred art in different churches; among them the Resurrection and the Ascension of Christ, at the chapel of the White Penitents at Avignon. He was invited to Paris, and there executed a number of mag- nificent works. At Marseilles he painted i\\c Corona- tion of the I'irffin, in the church of St. Maria. His en- gravings are inferior. See Spooner, Biof/. Hist, of the Fine A ?ts, s. v.
Parry, Richard, D.D., an English divine, was born about the beginning of the second quarter of last century. He was a student of Christ Church, Oxford, and obtained the degree of M.A. March 31, 1747; B.D. jMay 25, 1754 ; and D.D. July 8, 1757. After taking holy orders he was made rector of Wichampton, in Dorset- shire, and preacher at Market Harborough, in Leicester- shire, for which latter county he was in the commission of the peace. Dr. Parry was a very learned, active, and able divine. He died miserably poor at Market Har- borough, April 9, 1780, scarcely leaving sufficient to de- fray the charges of his funeral. His publications are:
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The Christian Sabbath as Old as the Creation (1753, 4t()); he was then chaplain to lord Yere: — 'J'he Scrip- ture Account of the Lord's Supper; the substance of three sermons preached at Market Harborough in 1755, 175(5: — The Fig-tree dried up, or the Story of that re- markable Transaction as it is related hy St. Mark con- sidered in a new light (1758, 4to) : — Defence of the Lord Bishop of London s Interpretation of Job's "/ knoio that my Redeemer liveth" (against Warbnrton [1760, 8vo]) : — .1 Dissertation on Daniel's Pi-ophecy of' the Seventy Weeks (Northampton, 17G2, 8vo): — Remarks upon a Letter from the Rev. Dr. Kennicott to the Printer of the " General Evening Post," wherein the printed Hebrew Text in Psa. xvi, 10 is vindicated, and the Doctot's Charge against the Jetcs of having wilfully corrupted the Prophecy is confuted (Lond. 17G3, 8vo). Other works: Harmony of the Four Gospels: — The Genealogy of Jesus Christ in Matthew and Luke explained (1771, 8vo). See Darling, Cyclop. Bibliogr. s. v.
Parry, "William, some time president and theo- logical tutor at Wymondley Academy, Herts, was born in the year 1754 at Abergavenny, in Monmouthshire. He was the eldest of twelve children, most of whom died young. When he was about seven years of age he removed with his fatlier to London, where he at- tended the ministrj' of Dr. Samuel Stennett. At the age of seventeen he publicly professed his attachment to Christianity by becoming a member of the Church at Stepney, then under the pastoral care of Mr. Brewer, by whom, at tlie age of twenty, he was introduced to the academj' at Homerton. Under the instructions of Drs. Condor, Gibbons, and Fisher, ]Mr. Parry remained during six years, pursuing, with unremitting ardor and persevering industry, the studies to which lie had de- voted himself. He was ordained at Little Baddow, Essex, in the year 1780. To his suggestion and be- nevolent activity while resident at Baddow may be at- tributed the formation of "The Benevolent Society for the Belief of Necessitous Widows and Children of Prot- estant Dissenting Ministers in the Counties of Essex and Herts," also "The Essex Union," whose object is to promote the extension of the Gospel in the county. In the year 1791, when an opposition was made to an application of the Dissenters for a repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, more especially by the noblemen, gentlemen, and clergy of the county of Warwick, lie animadverted with great eloquence and force on their resolutions in three letters addressed to the earl of Alyesford. The pamphlet on the Inspiration of the New Testament appeared in the year 1797, and has ob- tained for its author an extensive reputation. Shortly after its publication proposals were made to Mr. Parry, by the trustees of W. Coward, Esq., to become theolog- ical tutor in the dissenting academy which had for some years been conducted at Northampton and Dav- entry by Drs. Doddridge and Ash worth. An earnest desire of extended usefulness led Mr. Parry to accept those proposals, and in the year 1799 he took an affec- tionate farewell of his beloved flock at Baddow, after having labored among them for twenty years with great acceptance and fidelity. INIr. Parry entered on his new and imjiortant office at Wymondley (to which place the academy was removed) with all that intense application which naturally resulted from the high sense he entertained of its responsibility. As a lecturer Jlr. Parry was distinguished by perspicuity and clas- sical simplicity; and by a happy union of dignitj' and affection he secured the love and veneration of the stu- dents intrusted to his care. In undertaking the office of tutor, Mr. Parry did not resign that of a minister of Christ. Immediately after his settlement at Wymond- ley a small chapel was erected on the premises, where a congregation was raised and a Church formed, over which he presided as pastor till the time of his decease. With the exception of a charge delivered at the ordina- tion of one of his students, Mr. Parry appeared but once in the character of an author after his removal to Wy-