biography
| name: |
Parry, Sir William Edward
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| male
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| lived:
| (1790–1855)
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| biography:
| Arctic navigator, born in Bath, SW England, UK. He served in the navy, and was sent in 1810 to the Arctic regions to protect the whale fisheries. He took command in five expeditions to the Arctic regions (1818–27) which reached further N than anyone had done before. In 1829 he was knighted, and in 1837 was made controller of a department of the navy. He was subsequently superintendent of Haslar (1846), rear-admiral (1852), and Governor of Greenwich Hospital (1853). |
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