J. H. Parry, it would seem, was his parents’ eldest son. He was b. at Mold 6 April 1786, and went to Ruthin school (Thomas, op. cit., ii, 132). He was afterwards in the office of his uncle, a lawyer at Mold. On his father's death he inherited some money, went up to London in 1807, and was called to the Bar in 1811. But he ‘neglected his practice,’ fell into debt, and took to journalism, writing under the pseudonym ‘Ordovex.’ In 1819 he founded The Cambro-Briton, of which he brought out three volumes (1820-2), and in 1824 published a biographical dictionary, The Cambrian Plutarch. He was a member of the Gwyneddigion Society, and was one of the men who, in 1820, revived the Cymmrodorion Society — he was its secretary for a year, and edited the first volume 1822) of its Transactions. When, in 1822, the government decided to print the older British historians, Parry was appointed editor of the Welsh section — Aneurin Owen (q.v.) was appointed to succeed him after his death. He was killed in a tavern brawl at the ‘Prince of Wales,’ Pentonville, 12 Feb. 1825. Leathart describes him as ‘a generally intelligent man, though somewhat hasty and overbearing.’ He left a widow and five children in great poverty; the Gwyneddigion and Cymmrodorion, chiefly through the efforts of Bardd Alaw (q.v.), collected more than £1,000 for their benefit. One of these children was JOHN HUMPHREYS PARRY (1816-1880), a barrister, and one of the last to be entitled ‘Serjeant’; he appears in D.N.B. — a strong radical and a famous pleader, who appeared in some very notable cases, e.g. the Tichborne case, and Whistler v. Ruskin.