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The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Parry, Right Rev. Henry Hutton

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1435736The Dictionary of Australasian Biography — Parry, Right Rev. Henry HuttonPhilip Mennell

Parry, Right Rev. Henry Hutton, D.D., Bishop of Perth, W.A., is the son of the Right Rev. Thomas Parry, D.D., Bishop of Antigua, and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B. A. in 1851 and M.A. in 1858. He was made D.D. of Durham in 1876. Dr. Parry was ordained deacon in 1851 and priest in 1852. He was curate of Holy Trinity, Trinidad, 1851-3; curate of All Saints, Trinidad, 1853-5; tutor of Codrington College, 1855-60; Archdeacon of Barbadoes, 1861-8, and was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Barbadoes on May 15th, 1868. He was translated to Perth in 1876, where he arrived on May 20th, 1877. Bishop Parry has been twice married, his second wife being a daughter of the Hon. George Walpole Leake, M.L.C.