Parr
SAMUEL WILSON, an American educator, born at Granville, Ill., in 1857. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1884, afterward studying in Germany and Switzerland. In 1891 he was appointed professor of applied chemistry at the University of Illinois and was also director and consulting chemist of the Illinois State Water Survey. From 1905 he was State Geologist of Illinois. He was a member of many engineering societies and wrote much on subjects relating to chemistry.
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Parr (CATHARINE the th wife of King)
CATHARINE, the 6th wife of King Henry VIII.; daughter of Sir Thomas Parr; born in 1512. Married first to one Edward Borough, possibly Lord Borough, and afterward to Lord Boroug Latimer, she on July 12, 1543, became queen of England by marriage with Henry VIII. She was distinguished for her learning and knowledge of religious subjects, her discussion of which with the king had well nigh brought her to the block. Her tact, however, saved her; for she made it appear to the king's vanity that she had only engaged him in discourse about the Reformation to derive profit from his majesty's conversation. She persuaded Henry to restore the right of succession to his daughters. After Henry's death she married (1547) Sir Thomas Seymour, and died in the following year.
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Parrakeet
or PARAKEET, a popular name for any of the smaller long-tailed parrots. The word is in common use, but is applied without any strict scientific limitation to birds of different genera, and even of different families. Generally speaking, any old-world parrot with a moderate bill, long and more or less graduated tail, with the ends of the feathers narrowed, and high and slender tarsi, is called a parrakeet. town of New PARRAMATTA, a South Wales; on a W. extension of Port Jackson, 14 miles W. of Sydney, with which it is connected both by steamer and railway. The streets are wide and regular. "Colonial tweeds," "Parramatta cloths" (first made at Bradford from wool exported hence). Much fruit, especially the orange, is grown here. Parramatta, formerly called Rosehill, is, after Sydney, the oldest town in the colony, having been laid out in 1790. Pop. (1917) 12,250.
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Parrhasius
par-ra'shi-us (about 470-400 B. C.), a Grecian painter. Celebrated for wealth, insolence, and ability. He is said to have outmatched his rival, Zeuxis, by painting a picture of a curtain. Zeuxis came to see the picture and was so deceived by its naturalness that he waited for the curtain to be drawn aside that he might view the painting. Parrhasius is accused, probably unjustly, of crucifying a prisoner to get the real expression of pain for a picture he was painting.
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Parricide
one who murders his father, ancestors, or any one to whom reverence is due. The Athenians had no law against parricides, from an opinion that human atrocity could never reach to the guilt of parricide. This was also originally the case at Rome; but at a later period the delinquent, after being scourged, was placed in a leathern sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and so cast into the Tiber. The English and American law treat this crime as simple murder.
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Parrish (MAXFIELD an American decorator)
MAXFIELD, an American decorator and painter. Born in Philadelphia in 1870 and studied at Drexel Institute and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His work soon became widely known for its rich colored effects, which are especially good in his illustrations of the imagination of childhood. Probably his most successful work in illustrating books was achieved in the Arabian Nights. His later work has been chiefly in mural decoration and his largest single piece ngle piece of work as well as his most successful is the series of seventeen panels in the Curtis Publishing Company's Building in Philadelphia.
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Parrish (RANDALL an American writer)
RANDALL, an American writer, born in Henry co., Ill., in 1858. Studied at the University of Iowa and was admitted to the bar in that State. He later went to Arizona and New Mexico, and engaged in newspaper work in several cities in the West. He was the author of "When Wilderness Was King" (1904); "Gordon Craig" (1912); "The Red Mist" (1914); "The Devil's Own" (1917), and many other books.
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Parrott
ROBERT PARKER, an American inventor; born in Lee, N. H., Oct. 5, 1804; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1824; was Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the Academy in 1824-1826, and of Mathematics in 1826-1828. Commissioned a lieutenant, he served through the Greek war, and was afterward assigned to the Ordnance Bureau at Washington. He invented the well-known Parrott gun. He died in Cold Spring, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1877.
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Parry
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.
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Parry (II)
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.
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