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| Birth: | 19 December 1790 in Bath |
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| Death: | 9 July 1855 or 8 July 1855 in Bad Ems |
| Authority control: | Wikidata: Q437310 WikiTree: Parry-658 |
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Sir William Edward Parry was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. Parry and Edward Streets are named in his honour.
He was later Governor of Greenwich Hospital. He entered the Navy in 1803 and served during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1821 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and received a knighthood in April 1829. He arrived in Sydney in 1829; as a religious man he started schools for children and performed baptisms. He returned to England in 1834.
We don't know that he was ever in the Swan River Colony, nor is it clear why the streets were named after him. Garry Gillard states in Freotopia (without source) that William Street was also named after him, but other sources say that it was named after King William (which seems more likely than this man having all three of his names used in Fremantle).
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This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 17 July, 2016 and hosted at freotopia.org/people/parry.html (it was last updated on 15 March, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.