Thomas Parry (abt. 1538 - 1616)

Born about 1538 in Welford, Berkshire, England

Ancestors

Died 30 May 1616 at about age 78 in Parish of St. Mary, Savoy, London, England

Sir Thomas Parry was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Born. 1538, 1st son, of Thomas Parry by Anne Reade, the daughter, of Sir William Reade of Boarstall, Bucks. Anne Reade was the widow, of Sir Giles Greville and Sir Adrian Fortescue, of Shirburn and Stonor Place, Oxon. Thomas Parry was educated at Winchester in 1558. (a scholar, at aged 14); abroad. m. Dorothy Brooke of Bristol, maid of honour to the Queen, s.p. suc. fa. 1560. Kntd. 1601. Died 30 May 1616, childless; his heirs were his nephews, Thomas Knyvet and John Abrahall.

Sources

• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/parry-thomas-1544-1616

• The four visitations of Berkshire made and taken by Thomas Benolte, Clarnceuc, anno 1532; by William Harvey, Clarnceux, anno 1566; by Henry Chiting, Chester herald, and John Philipott, Rouge dragon, for William Camden, Clarenceux, anno 1623; and by Elias Ashmole, Windsor herald, for Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, anno 1665-66 Page 191: Parry of Hampstead Marshall

• Magna Carta Ancestry. Douglas Richardson

• MaClean, John. Letters of George Lord Carew to Sir Thomas Roe, Ambassador to the Court of the Greate Mogul, 1615-1617, Camden Society Series (London, 1860) Vol. 76, Page 34. Sir Thomas Parry died 24 May 1616.
• Chester, Joseph Lemuel. The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster (London, 1876) Page 113. Also see footnote #1. It is "usually said" he died "on the day preceding his burial". Burial was on 1 Jun 1616 in St. John Baptist's Chapel.