Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Parr
Vol. II Contents
MEMOIRS
OF
THE LIFE, WRITINGS,
AND OPINIONS
OF
THE REV. SAMUEL PARR, LL.D.;
WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES
OF MANY OF HIS FRIENDS, PUPILS,
AND CONTEMPORARIES.
BY
THE REV. WILLIAM FIELD.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
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LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1828.
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PRINTED BY A. J. VALPY, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.
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CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
A.D. 1800—1807.
Dr. Parr’s deep interest in political events—Elevation of
Buonaparte—Pacific overture from France—Union of Great Britain and
Ireland—Mr. Pitt’s resignation—Peace of Amiens—War
renewed—Mr. Pitt’s death—Mr. Fox,
secretary of state—Notice of his short administration—His death—His funeral attended by
Dr. Parr
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CHAPTER II.
A.D. 1807—1810.
Dr. Parr’s letter to Mr. Roscoe on
peace—Abolition of the slave-trade—Dismissal of the Whig ministers—Dr.
Parr’s encomium upon them—His portraiture of himself—The Catholic
question—Dr. Parr’s censure on the Copenhagen expedition—His
thoughts on Spanish affairs—Death of Sir John Moore—Dr.
Parr’s inscription to his memory—Royal jubilee—Imprisonment of
Sir Francis Burdett—The right of imprisonment, asserted by the
Commons, denied by Dr. Parr
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CHAPTER III.
A.D. 1809.
Publication of “Characters of Mr. Fox”—A
character written in Latin by Dr. Parr—Other characters selected from
newspapers—from magazines, sermons, &c.—A character written by Dr.
Parr in English—Notes—Disquisition on the state of the penal laws—Remarks on
Mr. Fox’s historical work—Reprint of four scarce tracts
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CHAPTER IV.
A.D. 1809—1812.
Dr. Parr’s attention to the administration of justice—His
compassionate concern for criminals—His forbearance to prosecute—His exertions to mitigate
severity of punishment—His visits to Warwick gaol—His attendance on the condemned—His care
to provide for the defence of the accused—Case of a clergyman tried for murder—Of another
clergyman capitally accused—Case of a youthful pilferer, stated in a letter to
Mr. Roscoe
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CHAPTER V.
A.D. 1810—1813.
Death of Mrs. Parr—Her character—Marriage of Miss
Parr—Her family—Her death—Her character—Dr.
Parr’s letter to Mr. Roscoe on the occasion—His
disunion with his son-in-law—Their reconciliation—A second separation—Dr.
Parr’s letters to his grand-daughters
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CHAPTER VI.
A.D. 1811—1815.
Death of Dr. Raine—His character—Monumental inscription for
him—Dr. Parr’s opinion of the public schools—Death of
Dr. White—His literary labours—His celebrated Bampton
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Lectures—Death of Mr. Dealtry—His
character—Death of the Duke of Norfolk—His political character—Death
of Mr. W. Lunn—Dr. Parr’s address to the
public in behalf of his family
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CHAPTER VII.
A.D. 1812—1815.
Public affairs—Death of Mr. Perceval—Liberal overtures to
the Whigs—Liverpool administration—Fall of Buonaparte—Dr.
Parr’s opinion of the Vienna manifesto—and the Holy Alliance—His
notice of parliamentary proceedings—Catholic question—Property tax—Unitarian toleration act
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CHAPTER VIII.
A.D. 1816—1820.
Dr. Parr’s second marriage—His happy old age—Reconciliation with
his grand-daughters—His ample income—His domestic habits—His studious mornings—His
epistolary correspondence—His handwriting—His amusements—His social parties
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CHAPTER IX.
A.D. 1816—1820.
Dr. Parr’s conversations—His gaiety and affability of manner—His
powers of wit—Encouragement of modest merit—Kind consideration for inferior intellect—His
colloquial harangues—His contempt of assuming ignorance—Horror of profane ridicule—Dislike
of punning—Occasional severity of censure
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CHAPTER X.
A.D. 1816—1820.
Dr. Parr’s friends in his later years—Mr. Chandos
Leigh—Mr. Webb—Dr.
Maltby—Dr. Butler—Mr. R. Kennedy—
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Mr. Corrie—Mr. Bartlam—Mr.
Coke—Mr. Roscoe—Duke of
Sussex—Dukes of Bedford,
Norfolk, and Leinster—Lord
Holland—Lord John Russell—Mr.
Rogers, &c. &c. &c.—Dr. Parr’s
admiration of female excellence in Mrs. Sheridan—Mrs.
Opie—Mrs. Dealtry, &c.
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CHAPTER XI.
A.D. 1816—1820.
Comparative view of the three learned professions—Dr.
Parr’s preference of the medical profession—His opinion of the ancient
physicians—Hippocrates, Celsus,
Galen, &c.—His opinion of the modern
physicians—Browne, Sydenham,
Boerhaave, &c.—His medical friends—Dr.
Percival, Dr. Arnold, Dr. James
Johnstone, &c.—His opinion of the legal profession—His friendly
intercourse with many of its distinguished members—Jones,
Erskine, Romilly, &c.—His opinion of some
of the church-dignitaries—His friends at Cambridge—at Oxford
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CHAPTER XII.
A.D. 1816—1820.
Public events—Effects of the victory of Waterloo on the temper of the English
government—Large military establishments maintained—Continuance of the war-tax
threatened—County-meetings at Warwick on the subject—Letter from Dr.
Parr to the Lord Mayor of London—Continued suspension of the Habeas Corpus
Act—County-meeting on the subject at Warwick—Ministerial attempts against the liberty of
the press—Manchester massacre—Prosecution of Mr. Hone—Dr.
Parr’s intercourse with him—Dr. Parr’s high
opinion of Major Cartwright—Sir Francis
Burdett’s visit with Dr. Parr at Leam
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CHAPTER XIII.
A.D. 1816-1820.
Death of Bishop Watson—His autobiography—His plans of
ecclesiastical reform—Approved by Dr. Parr—Death of Mr.
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Sheridan—Dr. Parr’s opinion of his
biographer—Their interview at Hatton—Death of the Princess
Charlotte—Dr. Parr’s funeral discourse on the
occasion—Death of Dr. Combe—His character—Biographical notice of
Dr. Burney—His epitaph written by Dr.
Parr—Death of Sir S. Romilly—Dr.
Parr’s intimacy with him—Death of Sir P.
Francis—Dr. Parr’s opinion respecting the
authorship of Junius’ Letters
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CHAPTER XIV.
A.D. 1819.
Northern tour—Dr. Parr at the Lakes—His visit to Mrs.
Watson—Mr. Curwen—Mr.
Brougham—Sir J. Graham—Dr. Parr at
Glasgow—His interview with Mr. Kinman, Mr.
Graham, &c.—His visit at Balloch Castle—His opinion of Professor
Young—Professor Milne—Mr. Pillans,
&c.—His visit to Bishop Gleig—Dr. Parr at
Edinburgh—His friendly intercourse with Professor Stewart—His
preference of the Hartleyan to the Scotch philosophy—His opinion of Professors
Brown, Dalzel, &c.—His interviews with
Mr. Jeffrey, Mr. Fletcher, &c.—His
opinion of Sir Walter Scott—Dr. Parr’s
return home—Visit to Sir C. Monck, Archbishop of York, &c.
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CHAPTER XV.
A.D. 1820—1821.
Story of Queen Caroline—Dr.
Parr’s introduction to her, when Princess of Wales—Her travels
abroad—Her reputation assailed by calumnious reports—Their effect on the public mind in
England—Dr. Parr’s protest against the exclusion of her name
from the Liturgy—Affair of St. Omer—The Queen’s arrival in London—Her cause espoused
by the nation Dr. Parr admitted to her presence and councils—Her
answers to the addresses of the people—Her trial—and acquittal—Dr.
Parr’s estimate of her character—Mr.
Canning’s testimony in her favour—Her sufferings—and
death—Dr. Parr’s reflections on the outrages at her funeral
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CHAPTER XVI.
A.D. 1816—1820.
Dr. Parr’s friendly intercourse with Dr.
Rees—and Dr. Lindsay—His occasional attendance on
divine service in dissenting chapels—His opinion of the Rev. Robert
Hall—His letters to the Rev. Charles Berry—Biographical
notice of the Rev. Peter Emans—Dr. Parr’s
kind feelings towards those of different sects—His encomium on Dr.
Lindsay—His letter to Dr. Rees 266
CHAPTER XVII.
A.D. 1820—1824.
Death of Bishop Bennet—Character of him by Dr.
Parr—Death of Mr. Bartlam—Anecdote of him—Death of Mr. R. P.
Knight—Notice of Dr. Symmons—His “Life of Milton”—Dr. Parr’s
acquaintance with Mr. Hollis—Vindication of Sir Walter
Raleigh from the charge of infidelity—Notice of General
Cockburn—Mr. U. Price—Sir J.
Aubrey—Professor Bekker—Mr.
Hermann—Dr. Griffiths—Mr.
Nichols—Dr. Parr’s letter on the subject of King
Richard’s Well
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CHAPTER XVIII.
A.D. 1820—1824.
Dr. Parr as a village-pastor—His attention to the repair and
improvement of his church—Its beautiful painted window destroyed by a hurricane—replaced by
a second window—Additional painted windows—Dr. Parr’s love of
bells—A new peal put up in his church—Letters on the subject to Mr.
Roscoe, and Mr. Postle—The body of the church
rebuilt—Dr. Parr’s careful management of the charities
belonging to his parish—His attention to the temporal as well as spiritual welfare of his
parishioners—May-day at Hatton
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CHAPTER XIX.
A.D. 1820—1824.
Dr. Parr as a parish priest—His care to perform all the offices of the
church—His manner of reading the Liturgy—His mode of commenting on the Scriptures—His
critical remarks inserted in the margin of the Hatton Prayer-Book—His manner of
preaching—The subject-matter of his discourses—His opinion of the evangelical party—His
religious instruction of the young—His support of popular education
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CHAPTER XX.
A.D. 1820—1825.
Dr. Parr’s first dangerous illness—His recovery—Celebration of
his seventy-third birth-day—His closing years—His last illness—His composure of mind—His
piety—His benevolence as displayed in his last hours—His death—His funeral—His monumental
inscription written by himself
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CHAPTER XXI.
Review of Dr. Parr’s character—His person—His
intellectual powers—His learning—His Latin epitaphs—His English composition—His
theological, metaphysical, ethical studies—His attachment to his church—His religious
sentiments—His spirit of candour—His character as a member of the state—His domestic
character
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CHAPTER XXII.
Biographical notices of some of the more distinguished scholars of Stanmore
School—Julius—Gerrald—Pollard—Maurice—Beloe—N.
H. and M. Alexander—W. C. and H. Legge—C. and
J. Graham—Madan, &c. &c.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
Biographical notices of some of the more distinguished scholars of Norwich
School—Headley—Tweddell—Dealtry—Monro—C.
J.
Chapman—Maltby—Howes—Goddard—B.
Chapman—Trafford
Southwell—Sutcliffe, &c.
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CHAPTER XXIV.
Biographical notices of some of the more distinguished of Dr.
Parr’s pupils at Hatton—Thomas
Sheridan—Smitheman—Bartlam—Lord
Tamworth—Wilder—Lord
Foley—George A. Legge—P. and W.
Gell—Dr. Davy, &c.
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CHAPTER XXV.
Various characters written by Dr.
Parr—Hooker—Meric
Casaubon—Bentley—Edwards—Helvetius—Mandeville
and Rousseau—Three furred
manslayers—Jortin—Leland—Homer—Lunn
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APPENDICES.
Pedigree—Latin epitaphs—English epitaphs—Inscription on the monument of
Rev. Robert Parr—Letter—Inscription on a piece of plate—Letter of
Mrs. Wynne—Tribute of respect to the memory of Dr.
Parr
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