PARRY, Rear Admiral Sir William Edward (1790-1855)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0101 ICS 131
Held at	: Institute of Commonwealth Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/resources/library ›
Full title	: PARRY, Rear Admiral Sir William Edward (1790-1855)
Date(s)	: 1829-1834
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume (137pp)
Name of creator(s)	: Parry | Sir | William Edward | 1790-1855 | rear admiral and arctic explorer Parry | Ann | fl 1960-1995 | author
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir (William) Edward Parry: b 1790; entered Royal Navy 1803; Lt 1810; in 1818 he commanded the ALEXANDER, a hired brig under the orders of Captain John Ross in his expedition to the Arctic; in 1819 he was appointed to the HECLA, in command of an expedition to discover the north-west passage; promoted Commander, 1820 and Captain 1821; led a further three expeditions to the Arctic, 1821-1825; Hydrographer to the Admiralty, 1825; led a further expedition to the North Pole, 1827, reaching further north than any previous expedition; knighted 1829; Commissioner, Australian Agricultural Company, 1829-1834; Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner in Norfolk, 1835-1836; controller of steam department of the Navy , 1837-1846; Captain-Superintendent, Haslar Hospital, 1846-1852; Rear Admiral, 1852; Lt Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1853; died 1855.
The Australian Agricultural Company was established by charter in 1824, with a grant of one million acres in New South Wales, and the object of breeding fine-woolled sheep and employing a large number of convicts. The directors of the company appointed Robert Dawson as chief agent, and appointed a local committee to supervise him. Dawson chose Port Stephens, an inlet about 100 miles from Sydney for the Company's grant. In time much of this land was pronounced unsuitable for sheep and Dawson was dismissed. Sir William Edward Parry was appointed Commissioner in 1829, with the task of finding better grazing land, and to arrange for the exchange of at least part of the grant.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript extract from journal of Sir (William) Edward Parry (1790-1855), covering his service as Commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Company, 1829-1834, edited by Ann Parry, 1995, with glossary and biographical notes on the personalities featuring in the journal.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

Open although advance notice should be given. Access to individual items may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.

Conditions governing reproduction:

A photocopying service is available, at the discretion of the Library staff. Copies are supplied solely for research or private study. Requests to publish, or to quote from, original material should be submitted to the Information Resources Manager.

Finding aids:

None

Archival Information

Archival history:

Parry's original journal was given by Sir Sydney Parry to the Mitchell Libary in Sydney, Australia. This edition has been compiled from a microfilm in the possession of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. The text was presented to ICS by Ann Parry in 1995.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to ICS by Ann Parry in 1995.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Parry of the Arctic by Ann Parry (Chatto & Windus, London, 1962).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Oct 2001