| 词条 | William Parry (Royal Navy officer, born 1705) |
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|name=William Parry |image=Admiral William Parry.jpg |caption=William Parry |birth_date=1705 |death_date=29 April 1779 |birth_place= |death_place= |nickname= |allegiance={{flag|Kingdom of Great Britain}} |branch= {{navy|Kingdom of Great Britain}} |serviceyears= |rank=Admiral |unit= |commands= HMS Kingston Jamaica Station Leeward Islands Station |battles=Seven Years’ War |awards= |relations= |laterwork= }} Admiral William Parry (1705 – 29 April 1779) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. Naval careerPromoted to post captain on 1 October 1744, Parry was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Kingston in February 1755 and saw action at the Battle of Minorca in May 1756 during the Seven Years' War.[1] Promoted to rear-admiral on 21 October 1762, he went on to be Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station in 1766[2] and, having been promoted to vice-admiral on 24 October 1770, he became Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands Station in 1772.[3][4] He was promoted to full admiral on 29 January 1778.[1] Parry married Lucy Brown, daughter of Commodore Charles Brown.[5] References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=2356|title=William Parry|publisher=Three Decks|accessdate=13 October 2015}} 2. ^Cundall, p. xx 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27257?docPos=2|title=Sir Charles Thompson|publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|accessdate=13 October 2015}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=Haydn|first1=Joseph|title=The Book of Dignities: Containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire ... from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time ... Together with the Sovereigns and Rulers of Europe, from the Foundation of Their Respective States; the Peerage of England and Great Britain Original 1851 Digitized by the University of Michigan|date=13 Jun 2008|publisher=Longmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans|page=279|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aURnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA272&dq=%22Admiral+William+O%27Bryen+Drury%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false|language=en}} 5. ^Sharman, p. 24 Sources
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