Up for auction 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