Sir William Edward Parry

Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855) was a British naval officer and a celebrated Arctic explorer, born at Bath. He visited the Arctic Seas under Ross in 1818, conducted a second expedition himself in 1819-20, a third in 1821-23, a fourth in 1824-26 with unequal success, and a fifth in 1827 in quest of the North Pole viâ Spitzbergen, in which he was baffled by an adverse current. He received sundry honours for his achievements. He died governor of Greenwich Hospital, and left several accounts of his voyages.

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