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'''Thomas Chase Parr''' (1802–1883) was a British officer of the [[East India Company]]'s [[Bombay Army]]. He ended his military career with the rank of full general.<ref name="Vane">{{cite book |last1=Vane |first1=The Hon W. L. |title=Durham Light Infantry: The United Red and White Rose |date=24 February 2012 |publisher=Andrews UK Limited |isbn=978-1-78151-541-9 |page=254 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B4G-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA254 |language=en}}</ref>

==Life==
He was the son of John Owen Parr I, a merchant in London and son of [[John Parr (gunmaker)|John Parr]] of Liverpool, and his wife Elizabeth Mary Patrick, daughter of Thomas Patrick; John Owen Parr II who became vicar of Preston was his elder brother.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1879 |publisher=Harrison |page=1236 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VYKmNCdw7kkC&pg=PA1236 |language=en}}</ref>

Parr was an [[East India Company]] cadet for the 1818 season.<ref>{{cite book |title=East-India Register and Directory |date=1819 |publisher=W.H. Allen |page=314 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x_8nAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA314 |language=en}}</ref> In the [[113th Infantry]], he took part in the [[Bani Bu Ali expedition]] of 1821, and was present at the night attack on [[Sur, Oman|Sur]].<ref name="Vane"/><ref>{{cite book |title=The New Annual Army List, Militia List, and Yeomanry Cavalry List |date=1881 |publisher=J. Murray |page=408 note 20 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=edUqAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA408 |language=en}}</ref>

Parr commanded the [[Marine Battalion]] 1833–1835, and the [[7th Bombay Native Infantry]], in particular in the 1845 operations in the Southern Mahratta country against the rebellion there.<ref name="Vane"/>

Then Parr took furlough, an extended period in which he married and started a family. His arrival in the United Kingdom in November 1845 was reported, his rank then being a major in the 7th Native Infantry.<ref>{{cite book |title=Allen's Indian Mail, and Register of Intelligence for British and Foreign India, China, and All Parts of the East |date=1845 |page=701 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YBwYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA701 |language=en}}</ref> The ''East-India Register and Army List'' for 1847 has him as a lieutenant-colonel with the 1st European Regiment, on furlough.<ref>{{cite book |title=The India Office and Burma Office List |date=1847 |publisher=Harrison and sons, Limited |page=26 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8MsyAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA26 |language=en}}</ref> On 22 February 1849 he was presented to [[Queen Victoria]] at a [[levée (ceremony)|levée]], by [[Thomas Pemberton Leigh]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Her Majesty's Levee |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18490223/002/0001 |work=London Evening Standard |date=23 February 1849|page=1}}</ref> In March 1849 he was given leave to remain in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book |title=Allen's Indian Mail and Register of Intelligence for British & Foreign India, China, & All Parts of the East |date=1849 |publisher=William H. Allen |page=187 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=drYOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA187 |language=en}}</ref>

Parr's wife gave birth to a daughter in [[Bhuj]], in 1851.<ref>{{cite news |title=Births |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18510404/044/0008 |work=Morning Post |date=4 April 1851|page=8}}</ref> In the 1856 ''East-India Register and Army List'', Parr was listed as colonel, commandant at Kurrachee ([[Karachi]]), and on furlough.<ref>{{cite book |title=East-India Register and Army List |date=1856 |publisher=W.H. Allen. |page=19 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2hkoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA19 |language=en}}</ref>

On leaving India, Parr took with him the colours of the 7th Bombay Native Infantry.<ref name="BHS">{{cite book |last1=Bombay Historical Society |title=Journal |date=1930 |publisher=Society |page=42 |language=en}}</ref> By the late 1860s, he was living in [[Harrow-on-the-Hill]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bushell |first1=William Done |title=Introduction to the architecture and history of the parish church of st. Mary, Harrow-on-the-hill. Revised and repr |date=1912 |publisher=Bowes & Bowes |page=24 |language=en}}</ref> He moved to Kent around 1873–4, leaving the colours to the church at Harrow.<ref name="BHS"/> He died at [[Bickley]] on 15 June 1883.<ref name="Vane"/>

==Family==
Parr married in 1846 Harriet Pott, second daughter of Charles Pott of Freelands.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle|volume=XXVI |date=1846 |publisher=Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868] |page=88 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dOwIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA88 |language=en}}</ref> Freelands was a house owned by [[Samuel Scott, 2nd Baronet of Lytchet Minster|Samuel Scott]] as part of his Sundridge Park estate, near [[Bromley, Kent]], from 1818. The Pott family were long-term tenants, to 1876.<ref>{{cite book |title=A History of Bromley, in Kent, and the surrounding neighbourhood [By Edward Strong. With plates.] |date=1858 |publisher=Edward Strong |page=119 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vRtbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA119 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Horsburgh |first1=Edward Lee Stuart |title=The Surroundings of Bromley Town, Ch. 10 of Bromley, Kent |url=https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/c3844fd3/files/uploaded/Gxu6AYqvT9mM4wjrn94c_Horsburgh%20Chapter%2010.pdf |website=irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com|page=199|date=1929}}</ref>

The children of the marriage included:

*Charles Chase Parr (died 1897, aged 49).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Norman |first1=Philip |title=Scores and Annals of the West Kent Cricket Club, 1812-1896, Originally the Prince's Plain Club: With Some Account of the Neighbourhoods of Chislehurst and Bromley and of the Families Residing There |date=1897 |publisher=Eyre & Spottiswoode |pages=259 and 362 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9-YOAAAAQAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He married in 1872 Katherine Anne Millar;<ref>{{cite news |title=Marriages |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18720212/055/0007 |work=London Evening Standard |date=12 February 1872|page=7}}</ref> their daughter Olive Katherine Parr was the writer [[Beatrice Chase]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Child |date=1924 |publisher=John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd. |page=280 |language=en}}</ref>
*Alfred Arthur Chase Parr (1849–1914), naval officer.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Markham |first1=Sir Clements Robert |title=The Threshold of the Unknown Region |date=1876 |publisher=S. Low, Marston, Searles & Rivington |page=411 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CKwNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA411 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Alfred Parr collection - Archives Hub |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/77ce8ff2-e15b-3d1c-aa72-86990737a773 |website=archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk}}</ref> [[Cape Parr]] in Antarctica was named after him.<ref>{{cite book |last1=United States Board on Geographic Names |last2=United States Defense Mapping Agency Geographic Names Data Base Division |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |date=1981 |publisher=National Science Foundation |page=641 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HJyn9Par_uMC&pg=PA641 |language=en}}</ref>
*Willoughby Chase Parr, third son, cleric.<ref>{{alox2|title=Parr, Rev. Willoughby Chase}}</ref> Father of [[Martin Willoughby Parr]].<ref>{{Who's Who|surname=Parr|othernames=Martin Willoughby|id=U167887|access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
*[[Percivall Chase Parr]], fourth son.<ref>{{alox2|title=Parr, Percivall Chase}}</ref>
*Harriet Bertha, married 1876 [[Robert Hebert Quick]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sell |first1=Alan P. F. |title=Four Philosophical Anglicans: W. G. DeBurgh, W. R. Matthews, O. C. Quick, H. A. Hodges |date=20 March 2015 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-4982-2008-8 |page=143 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EvuUBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA143 |language=en}}</ref>
*Emily Oliver, artist.<ref>{{cite web |title=Suffolk Artists - Parr, Emily Oliver |url=https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=1921 |website=suffolkartists.co.uk}}</ref>

Parr's nephew John Owen Parr III married in 1857 Mary Emily Pott, youngest surviving daughter of Charles Pott.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walford |first1=Edward |title=The County Families of the United Kingdom, Or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1864 |publisher=Hardwicke |page=775 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=n9pv_1xLploC&pg=PA775 |language=en}}</ref>

==Notes==
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Thomas Chase Parr - Revision history

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