\"Serjeant-At-Law\" John Humffreys Parry Hand Written Letter For Sale

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\"Serjeant-At-Law\" John Humffreys Parry Hand Written Letter:
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Up for sale the "Serjeant-At-Law" John Humffreys Parry Hand Written Letter Dated 1874.

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John Humffreys Parry (24 January 1816 – 10 January 1880)

was an English barrister, who became serjeant-at-law.

The son of John Humffreys Parry the

antiquarian (1786–1825), he was born in London on 24 January 1816. He received

a commercial education at the Philological School, Marylebone,

and spent a short time in a merchant's office in London; but then took a post

in the printed-book department in the British

Museum. He attended lectures at the Aldersgate Institution and

studied for the bar. Parry was called to the

bar in June 1843 at the Middle Temple.

On the home circuit he built up a good criminal business, principally at the Old Bailey

and the Middlesex sessions. Appointment as a serjeant-at-law, in June 1856, led

him to success also in the civil courts. He was also largely employed in

compensation cases, especially for the London, Brighton, and South Coast

Railway.Parry obtained a patent of precedence in 1864 from Lord Westbury,

and then led the home circuit. In November 1878 he was elected a bencher of the

Middle Temple. His best-known cases were the trial of Manning in 1849; of Franz

Müller, for the murder of Mr. Briggs, in October 1864; the Overend and Gurney prosecution in 1869; the

indictment of Arthur Orton the Tichborne claimant, in 1873–4; and Whistler v. Ruskin in November 1878

"Serjeant-At-Law" John Humffreys Parry Hand Written Letter

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