Parry
Parry names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Parry SIR WILLIAM EDWARD, an English navigator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR WILLIAM EDWARD, an English navigator; born in Bath in 1790. He entered the navy in 1803, and in 1818 accompanied Sir John Ross, as second in command, to Baffin's Bay, in an expedition for the discovery of the Northwest Passage, which was unsuccessful. But the year following, Lieutenant Parry was appointed to the command of the "Hecla" and "Griper"; and this voyage resulted in the discovery of a considerable portion of the Northwest Passage, the ships wintering at Melville's Island. Captain Parry commanded two other expeditions that failed of success. In 1827 he again commanded the "Hecla" in an attempt to reach the North Pole. The ship was left at Spitzbergen, and Parry with his boats succeeded in reaching the highest latitude attained up to that time (82° 45′), but the drift of the ice S. prevented further advance. He died in 1855.
Parry SIR (CHARLES) HUBERT HASTINGS
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR (CHARLES) HUBERT HASTINGS, a British composer. He was born at Bournemouth, Eng., in 1848 and made attempts at music at Eton, and at Oxford, graduating as M. A. in 1874, and studying music under Bennett, Macfarren, and Dannreuther. He held musi- Oxford, Cambridge, and cal positions at Dublin, becoming professor of comp of composition and musical history and finally director at the Royal College of Music. He was made a knight in 1898, and a baronet in 1903. He died in 1918. His works include "Judith"; "Job"; "King Saul" (oratorios); several symphonies and much incidental music. "Glories of Our Blood and State"; "Blest Pair of Sirens"; "Ode to St. Cecilia's Day"; "The Soul's Ransom," are his chief choral works.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's noted in 1921 that Sir William Edward Parry's 1819 voyage found "a considerable portion of the Northwest Passage" but that later attempts failed; the full passage had in fact already been sailed by Roald Amundsen's Gjøa in 1903-06, and by 2016 a cruise liner, the Crystal Serenity, carried more than 1,000 passengers through it as summer sea ice retreated. Parry's 1827 farthest north of 82° 45′ stood as a record until 1876, and the Pole itself was flown over by the airship Norge in 1926 and reached across the ice by Ralph Plaisted's snowmobile party in 1968. The entry on Sir Hubert Parry, dead only three years when Collier's wrote, lists "Judith," "Job" and "Blest Pair of Sirens" but not his 1916 setting of Blake's "Jerusalem" — now by far his best-known music, sung at the Last Night of the Proms, at royal weddings and as an unofficial English anthem. His coronation anthem "I Was Glad" (1902) is likewise missing from a list that has since been reshuffled by posterity.
Written for this edition, 2026.