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Albert William Parry

1874–1950

A Welsh clergyman, editor, and scholar, he moved between church life and education with unusual ease. He is best remembered for his work in the Church in Wales and for writing on the history of education in medieval England.

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About the author

Born in 1874, Albert William Parry was a Welsh clergyman who later became Dean of St Davids, serving from 1940 to 1949. He was also editor of Y Llan and Church News, the newspaper of the Church in Wales.

Parry is linked with serious scholarly work as well as church leadership. His book Education in England in the Middle Ages shows his interest in the history of learning and institutions, and it has remained findable in major library and archive catalogs.

He died in 1950. Publicly available biographical information appears to be quite limited, so many personal details about his life and career are not widely documented online.