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Parr, Samuel

Biography: Schoolmaster. Born Harrow 1747. Attended Harrow School 1752-61, apprenticed to his father 1761. Matriculated Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1765, but had to go down 1766 after the death of his father. First Assistant at Harrow School 1767. Ordained deacon 1769, served curacies at Willesden and Kingsbury. Started his own school at Stanmore 1771-7. Ordained priest 1775. Master at Colchester grammar school 1777. Headmaster of Norwich grammar school 1778-85. Perpetual curacy of Asterby, Lincolnshire 1780. L.L.D., Cambridge, 1781. Perpetual curacy of Hatton, Warwickshire 1783, taught private pupils there. Collated to the prebend of Wenlock Barnes 1783. Exchanged his curacy for the rectory of Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire, 1789, but this was a purely legal arrangement, continued to live at Hatton and teach there. Gave up teaching 1798. Chaplain to Queen Caroline 1820. Died Hatton, 1825. Involved in some literary controversies.

Biography Date: 1747-1825

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Book List

Owner (other form of name)	Book Title	Author	Publication Place	Date
Parr, Samuel	Stephani Nigri... Dialogus, quo quicquid in grecarum literarum penetralibus reconditu: quod ad historiae veritatem: ad fabularu oblectamenta: ad eruditionis famam...	Niger, S.	Milan	1517
Parr, Samuel	Tusculan disputations.	Cicero, M.T.	Paris	1558
Parr, Samuel	De occultis literarum notis, seu artis animi sensa occult aliis significandi libri IIII.	Porta, Giambattista della.	Montbeliard	1593
Parr, Samuel	De pueris recte ac liberaliter instituendis D. Iacobi Sadoleti ... Liber doctissimus ... Item D. Erasmi Roterodami de civilitate morum...	Sadoleto, J.	Basel	1538
Parr, Samuel	Hieronymi Maggi variarum lectionum, seu miscellaneorum libri IIII.	Maggi, G	Venice	1564
Parr, Samuel	Ioannis Morisoti colloguiorum libri quatuor ad Constantinum filium.	Morisotus, J.	Basel	1549?
Parr, Samuel	Carmina	Tibullus	Modena	1481