Edward Abbott Parry

Sir Edward Abbott Parry (portrayed in 1927 in a bookplate designed for him)

Edward Abbott Parry (1863–1943) was an English judge and dramatist.

Parry was born in London, the second son of John Humffreys Parry, a barrister.^[1][2] Parry himself studied at the Middle Temple and was called to the Bar in 1885. He was Judge of Manchester County Court 1894-1911^[3] and became Judge of Lambeth County Court in 1911. He wrote several plays and books for children.^[4] He was appointed to sit on a Pensions Appeal Tribunal in the summer of 1917, which dealt with appeals against governmental decisions on military pensions, and later published a book on War Pensions: Past and Present, co-authored with Sir Alfred Codrington, another member of the Tribunal.^[5]

Works

• 1888: (ed.) The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh
• 1895: Katawampus, its Treatment and Cure. London: David Nutt (many later editions)
  • Katawampus, its treatment and cure, and the First Book of Krab. Illustrated by Archie Macgregor, coloured by Cynthia Moon. Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, 1921
• 1897: The First Book of Krab: Christmas stories for young and old; with illustrations by Archie MacGregor. London: David Nutt
• 1900: Don Quixote of the Mancha. Re-told by Judge Parry. Illustrated by Walter Crane. London: David Nutt
• 1914: The Law and The Poor. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• 1923: The Seven Lamps of Advocacy. London: T. Fisher Unwin

References

1.  Foster, Joseph (1885). "Parry, Edward Abbott". Men-at-the-Bar (second ed.). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney. p. 353.
2. http://www.recyclegen.com/archives/montg_coll/abc/abbott.htm
3. Resident of Burlington Road, Withington--Lejeune, C. A. (1964) Thank You for Having Me. London: Hutchinson; p. 36
4. The Green Room Book, and Who's Who on the Stage. 1907
5. Digitised copy

• The seven lamps of advocacy. Published 1968 by Books for Libraries Press in Freeport, N.Y .

External links

• Works by Edward Abbott Parry at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Edward Abbott Parry at Internet Archive