3-052-390 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr. Serjeant Parry, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company. 'Mr. John Humffreys Parry, Serjeant-at- law, was in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He was the son of Mr. J. H. Parry, Q.C., an eminent barrister, scholar, and antiquary, who published several works treating of Welsh literary history. He was in early life employed in the British Museum Library, but was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in Trinity Term, 1843, and joined the Home Circuit, of which he became one of the acknowledged leaders. He also practised at the Central Criminal Court and at the Middlesex Sessions, and enjoyed a lucrative practice in arbitration cases. He received a Serjeant's coif in 1856, and a patent of precedence in 1864. The ancient order of Serjeants is now almost become extinct. The late Serjeant made several attempts to obtain a seat in Parliament. Among others, he contested Norwich in the advanced Liberal interest at the general election of 1847 against Sir Samuel Morton Peto and the Marquis of Douro, now Duke of Wellington; and again, in 1857, he was defeated in an attempt to contest the borough of Finsbury against Mr. T. S. Duncombe and Mr. William Cox'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.