1825.) 
Greek, the Latin and° the Protestant 
churches ; as also those which have, at va- 
rious periods, divided the literary world ; 
being a most learned philologist, erudite 
classical scholar, and profound metaphy- 
sician ; skilled in general science, and more 
especially in the principles of legislation ; 
deeply read in ecclesiastical and general 
history, as well as in the systems of ethics 
and philosophy, of all ages and nations ;— 
the “ spirits of the mighty dead’ might be 
said to come at his call; and the poets, 
the orators and philosophers of antiquity 
mentally. appeared at the invocation of a 
genius transcendant as themselves. ‘To 
estimate his acquisitions to their full ex- 
tent was impossible ; knowledge in him 
was an ocean, the boundaries of which no 
one ever disecovered—the depths of which 
no one ever fathomed. 
Such a man, enjoying unabated vigour of 
intellect, and undecaying firmness of pur- 
pose, though almost on the verge of his 
eightieth year, was a spectacle sublime as 
that of the polar sun blazing at miduight, 
and pouring forth floods of light when the 
ordinary laws of nature decree darkness. 
That such talents and such learning 
should be accompanied by a commensurate 
kindness of heart and urbanity of manners, 
‘is not more than thinking men would ex- 
pect, nor less than good men would desire. 
He was the personal friend of his hamblest 
parishioners ; and to them he was an ex- 
pounder of Scripture, alike able, zealous 
and faithful: and whilst he taught them 
to abhor every species of hypocrisy end 
fraud, they witnessed that his practice and 
his precepts were in exact accordance. 
Religion in him had no taint of supersti- 
tion, or bigotry: he believed that the fold 
of Christ included all that have faith in 
his mission, and obey his precepts; and 
the rest of his fellow-beings he presumed 
not to jud#e. We soothed the afflicted, 
advised the friendless, consoled the widow 
-and the fatherless, and sought to lighten 
the captive’s fetters: he was, indeed, the 
friend of those “‘ who had none beside to 
help them.’’ His conversational inter- 
course was instructive and delightful, al- 
most beyond parallel: the hospitality of 
ancient times prevailed at his table, and 
his hourly liberality proved his contempt 
for riches, 
Dr. Parr was born at Harrow: his fa- 
ther was a surgeon of that place ; and his 
paternal grandfather was rector of Hinck- 
ley, in Leicestershire: He was at the 
head of Harrow school in his fourteenth 
year ; and would, on the death of Dr. Sum- 
ner, who strongly reeonmunended- him as his 
successor, have been appointed to the head- 
mastership, had it not been for the imma- 
turity of his age. Av Harrow,*he con- 
‘racted a friendship with Dr. Bennet, late 
Bishop of Cloyne, and the celebrated Sir 
Wm. Jones. “When he removed fram 
Harrow, to establish himself as a teacher 
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at Stanmore, almost all the boys of the 
upper school accompanied him. He be- 
came successively master of the Grammar 
Schools of Colchester and Norwich; and 
was preferred, in 1780, to the rectory of 
Asterby, in the diocese of Lincoln. This, 
in 1785, he exchanged for the perpetual 
curacy of Hatton, in Warwickshire. In ad- 
dition to the benefice above-mentioned, the 
Rey. Dr. Parr held the living of Graffham, in 
Huntingdonshire, which was presented to 
him by Sir Francis Burdett. Through the 
present Earl of Dartmouth’s grandfather, 
he also obtained, from Bishop Lowth, a 
prebend of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Dr. Parr 
was twice married—first to Ann, of the 
ancient house of Mauleverer, in Yorkshire ; 
and afterwards to Mary, sister.of the late 
Key. James Eyre, of Solihull, in Warwick- 
shire. By his first wife, he had several 
children, all of whom died in their infancy, 
except Catherine and Sarah, both of whom 
he survived; the first married to John 
Wyune, Esq., of Garthmillis, in Denbigh- 
shire, and left two daughters, now living— 
Catherine’ and Augusta; the eldest of 
whom is the wife of the Rey. John Lymes, 
Reetor of Elmley Levit, in Worcester- 
shire. 
Dr. Parr was not doomed to experience 
liberality where it ought to have been most 
exhibited. He was never patronized by 
the government: but derived his prefer- 
ments, and that competence, which so 
happily gilded the sunset of his life, and 
which he so nobly united with mental in- 
dependence, from his own exertions, and 
those of private friendship. Distinguished 
as Dr. Parr was for his moral charae- 
ter, his’ persevering exercise of all the 
duties of his station as a parish. pastor, 
and his zealous and enlightened attach- ~ 
ment to our civil and religious constitu- 
tion, this neglect of him, by the ruling 
“powers, is obviously traceable to the known 
independence of his character. The secret, 
indeed, may be explained by an extract from 
his admirable work “ On the Character of 
Mr. Fox;”’ in which he states, that *‘ fram 
his youth upwards he never deserted a 
friend, nor violated a public principle ; that 
he was the sLAVE OF NO PATRON, AND 
THE ORGAN OF NO PARTY; that he formed 
his political opinions without the slightest 
regard, and acted upon them with total dis- 
regard to personal emolument and prefes-~ 
sional promotion !” ‘ : 
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BAREAULD. 
Ar Stoke Newington, on the 9th in- 
stant, in the 82d year of her age, Mrs. 
Anna Letitia Barbauld, daughter af the 
late Rev. John Aiken, D.D., and widow 
of the Revs Rochmont Barbauld. 
This distinguished lady, whose fame is 
second to none of the female writers of her 
country, was born at Kibworth, in the 
county of Leicester, on June 20th, 1743. 
She was indebted to her learned and ex 
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