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Amélie & Edward Parry

Memorial StGiles Stoke Poges Edward Hagarty Parry 1931 Amelie Marthe 1929

Edward Hagarty Parry, known as Ted was born in Toronto in 1855 where his father was the first Professor of Classics at Trinity College. The family moved to Leamington and then onto Bristol. His father established a private school near Bristol. Edward was sent to Charterhouse school where he excelled at sport. He had Robert Baden-Powell fag for him and they became friends for life. Edward went upto Exeter College, Oxford, then became a school teacher. He took over from his father as Headmaster of Stoke House school in 1892 and retired in 1918. In 1913 Edward relocated Stoke House school to Seaford, East Sussex. His family were greatly missed in Stoke Poges. He had been a Churchwarden and a Parish Councillor.

Edward Parry at Exeter College, Oxford
Photo Credit: © Charterhouse School Archive – No use without written permission
Stoke House in Stoke Green Stoke Poges in the lateC20

Edward was Captain of the Old Carthusians football team that won the Association Football cup in 1881 and between 1879 – 1882 was a forward in the England football team. He was the first foreign born footballer to play for England.

In 1883 at Harrow-on-the Hill, Edward married Amélie Martha Pique. She was the daughter of Monsieur Piquet of Millieres, Bourbon-Lancy, France.

Millieres near Bourbon-Lancy , central France
Stoke House school, Stoke Green, Stoke Poges featuring
members of the Parry family with trap late C19

Photo credit: Great Granddaughter of the founder of the school

In retirement Amélie and Edward moved to Nottingham where they helped families of servicemen killed in World War 1. Amélie died aged 78 in 1929 and Edward died aged 76 in 1931.

Grave Edward Ted Hagarty Parry Amelie Martha St Marys Plumtree churchyard Stoke House Stoke Green Stoke Poges
The grave of Edward Hagarty and Amélie Martha Parry
in St Marys churchyard, Plumtree, Nottinghamshire

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