| 词条 | David Hughes Parry |
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Early lifeHe was born to a hill farming family in Llanaelhaearn, in the administrative county of Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), in the Llŷn Peninsula of north Wales. The family were Welsh-speaking and deeply religious. He learnt English only after he started school. He attended Pwllheli county school (now Ysgol Glan y Môr) from where he won a scholarship to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1910, graduating in 1914 with a first in Economics.[1] War serviceIn World War I he joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers as an officer in 1915 and did service on the Western Front. He was invalided out in 1919.[1] CareerHe then attended Peterhouse, Cambridge, of which he became an honorary fellow in 1956, and passed the law tripos first class in 1920. After Peterhouse he was a lecturer in law at Aberystwyth. He became a barrister in 1922 at Inner Temple, a bencher in 1952, and took silk in 1955. In 1924 he became lecturer in law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and from 1928 reader. In 1930 he became professor of English law, succeeding Edward Jenks. When he retired in 1959. it was the leading department in the country. In 1947, he created the University of London's Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, an international centre of legal research, and was director from 1947 to 1959.[1] At the University of London, he held many important offices including the vice-chancellorship (1945–8) and chairmanship of the court (1962–70). He developed the university's social and athletic facilities rather than at the college level. From 1955 to 1964 he was president of the University of Aberystwith. Hughes Parry Hall, a hall of residence located in Cartwright Gardens, was named after him. He was editor of the Solicitors Journal from 1925 to 1928.[2] Personal lifeIn 1923 he married Hâf (1898–1965), only daughter of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards an inspector of education for Wales and briefly Liberal Member of Parliament for Merionethshire. They had no children. His wife inherited her father's house at Llanuwchllyn, which was their Welsh home from 1923. He died there in 1973. See also
References1. ^1 2 3 D. W. Logan: Parry, Sir David Hughes (1893–1973), rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010, accessed 30 October 2012 2. ^"Sir David Hughes Parry" (1973) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=V4A4AQAAIAAJ 117] Solicitors Journal 42 (19 January)
| before = Professor Frank Horton FRS | title = Vice-Chancellor of the University of London | years = 1945–1948 | after = Dame Lillian Penson }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Parry, David Hughes}} 9 : 1893 births|1973 deaths|Vice-Chancellors of the University of London|People educated at Ysgol Glan y Môr|Alumni of the University of Wales|Alumni of Aberystwyth University|Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge|Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge|Academics of the London School of Economics |
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