Edward Parrott

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James Edward Parrott JP (born June 1, 1863 in Marple , † April 5, 1921 in Edinburgh ) was a British non-fiction author and politician.

Life

Parrott was born in Marple in 1863 as the eldest son of the teacher Edward Brown Parrott . He attended St Paul's College in Cheltenham and initially worked as a primary school teacher. In 1891 he married Elizabeth Sophia . In addition to his work, he earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1893 . Assigned to various apprenticeships in Sheffield and Liverpool , Parrott began revising and later writing school books. This work was the focus for Parrott until the end of his life. In the 1890s, the Edinburgh publishing house Thomas Nelson & Sons secured its collaboration in the field of textbooks.

In 1900 Parrott received a master's degree from Trinity College and was awarded a doctorate in law. He was used as Justice of the Peace for Edinburgh. As a result of his commitment to Belgian and Serbian refugees during the First World War , he was awarded the Belgian Order of the Crown and the Serbian Order of St. Sava . Parrott died unexpectedly in Edinburgh in 1921.

Political career

In 1904 Parrott was elected chairman of the South Edinburgh Liberal Association and in 1908 of the Edinburgh United Liberal Committee . Since his party colleague Charles Henry Lyell resigned his lower house mandate for the constituency of Edinburgh South in 1917 , by-elections were required in the constituency. To these Parrott went on for the Liberal Party . For the elections on May 12 of the same year, no opposing candidate reported, so Parrott received the mandate without a vote and moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . In the following general election in 1918 Parrott did not run for another term for Edinburgh South. Unionist Charles Murray clearly won the mandate of this constituency . Instead, Parrott ran in the neighboring constituency of Edinburgh West . With the temporary split in the liberals, he followed the trend of former Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and ran as an independent liberal. Parrott could not prevail against the unionist John Gordon Jameson , but received more votes than the Labor candidate John Alexander Young . He left parliament and died before the following elections in 1922 , so that he could not stand for election again.

Works (selection)

  • The Pageant of British History
  • The Pageant of English Literature
  • The Children's Story of the War (10 volumes)
  • Why Britain went to War
  • The New Age Encyclopædia

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Debrett’s Guide to the House of Commons 1918, p. 126.
  2. ^ A b c Obituary in "The Times", April 6, 1921.
  3. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons 1918, p. 216.
  4. ↑ a b Debrett’s Guide to the House of Commons 1922, p. 208.

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personal data
SURNAME Parrott, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parrott, James Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Marple
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1921
Place of death Edinburgh