Samuel Parr

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Samuel Parr (1747-36), author, scholar, and Doctor of Law, was born in England.

He was known as a "Whip Johnson" in his time as a writer and (flatteringly) as "the Whig Johnson" in his day, but Parr's fame lasted less than Samuel Johnson's, and the resemblances were superficial; parr was no prose stylist, even though he was a well-known literary figure; and, of course, he was no one who was a popular literary figure.

He kept up with several of his pupils and was heavily involved in intellectual and political life.

Life

Parr was born in Harrow on the Hill to Samuel Parr, a surgeon, and Ann, his wife Ann. Samuel was a determined and educated man who taught his only son Latin grammar at the age of four. Parr was a free scholar at Harrow School in the spring 1752, and he began to help his father with his medical care. Samuel's father attempted to guide him in a medical career. Parr, 26, has repeatedly turned down offers to extend his medical knowledge. Parr's mother died in early November 1762. 8 His father married again, this time to Margaret Coxe, much to his son's displeasure, who was sixteen at the time.

Samuel was eventually allowed to trade medicine for divinity. Parr came to a conclusion, perhaps as a sizar as his stepmother had predicted or perhaps not. 32 He was accepted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1765, where he later wrote, "his tutors were eminently capable, and to me uniformly kind." Parr's father died at the age of 54 in 1766, just a few months into his 14-month stay at Cambridge, and Parr's father, who was unable to continue his studies without going into debt, was forced to leave Cambridge. 48. Because of Cambridge's laws concerning bachelorships in divinity, he could claim one after ten years of teaching, but he would not have to be a student in order to do so.

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He returned to Harrow after being deprived of both financial and intellectual stimulation. He worked with Robert Carey Sumner (now a personal friend) as his head assistant at Harrow, where he earned an annual salary of £50 and almost identical fees from private students from February 1767 to the end of 1771. Parr started applying for the position as soon as the headmaster died in September 1771, but was not chosen. Harrow demanded that every applicant had a Master of Arts degree; an honorary one was soon awarded from Cambridge, where all of his former instructors raved highly of him.

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On Christmas Eve 1769, Richard Terrick, Bishop of London, was ordained deacon, and for a short time he served curacies at the nearby parishes of Willesden and Kingsbury. Parr received a license from the bishop on October 14th, 1771, and he founded a Stanmore school. Jane Marsingale was married the next month, possibly out of necessity for a female superintendent at the university. 66 Despite he was taking 20 to 40 students from Harrow with him, the school dropped after five years, mainly because it was unable to compete with the school's numerous interests. 106–108 During his time there, however, he achieved a variety of curriculum enhancements, especially English and its grammar, as opposed to simply Latin, on which he wrote his Introduction to English Grammar, which appeared in 1765.

He was elected headmaster of Colchester Royal Grammar School in 1776 and moved his family and family to the town in 1777. He restored the buildings that had fallen into disreption, and he rented a house near it for the reception of private boarders. 109 A schoolhouse was named after him in 1908 in honor of his service there. Despite the fact that his time in the academy was short – he left after only twelve or fourteen months – he made two friendships with the Rev. Thomas Twining, curator of Fordham, and Rev. Jeremy Johnson. Dr. Nathaniel Forster, a 110-year-old rector of All Saints near Colchester, is the rector of the All Saints. He was also ordained priest by Bishop Lowth on March 15, 1775, becoming another promoter of English in schools. He began the cures of the Hythe and the Trinity Church in Colchester at the behest of his friend Dr. Forster.

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Parr was elected master of Norwich's grammar school on August 1st and later in the year, the city was moved to Norwich to begin work. Despite the fact that money was still a concern of Parr's, he did find happiness in Norwich, surrounded by a group of committed scholars. 122–123 He became curate to Reverend William Tapps for a short time, and he continued to minister the churches of St. George's Colgate and St Saviour. 124 Parr, who wanted to become a doctorate but with no one in divinity available, switched his studies to law. The degree of LL.D. He was duly awarded by the University of Cambridge in 1781. 128

He left Norwich around 1785, primarily because his job as headmaster did not pay well but that a large part of his time was required. 182 In addition, he was relegated to the small rectory of Asterby in Lincolnshire, and three years later the vicarage of Hatton near Warwick. The first of these was worth £36 a year; the latter, on the other hand, was worth about £100. He later resigned from Hatton in favour of his curate. 131–131 These posts gave him both better pay and more free time to teach privately and derive more money from those activities.

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Parr was almost ordained to be the Bishop of Gloucester in late 1788, but the Prince of Wales' installation as regent almost saw him become the Bishop of Gloucester. William Pitt the Younger had been in power on George III's reign but parliament came close (by a matter of weeks) to declaring the Prince of Wales as regent. Prinny, as he was known, was a patron of Parr's; as a result, he would have chosen Fox to be the prime minister, instead of Parr; Fox in turn would have proclaimed Parr as the Bishop of Gloucester; The King's health has improved, but the Regency Bill has never passed, so it was unfortunate for Parr. However, the Whigs did give him a £300 annuity, which he needed at times during his retirement.

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In 1789, he exchanged Hatton for Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire, stipulating that he could live as assistant curate in the parsonage of Hatton, where he took only a small number of students. 197 Here he spent the remainder of his days, enjoying his extensive library, as outlined by HG Bohn in Bibliotheca Parriana (1827). Porson and EH Barker, his colleagues, died after a long career in the company.

Parr had poor colds in the past, and from two infections he had erysipelas. He recovered from the first; the second did not. He suffered from a long illness with patience and piety and died at Hatton parsonage on March 6, 1825.

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