Samuel Parr (1747-1825) was a pedagogue. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Letters and family papers of Samuel Parr, consisting of:

• Letters to Parr from members of the Whig party, 1780-1821
• Miscellaneous letters to Parr, 1784-1823
• Papers of Parr's father, Samuel Parr, mainly letters
• Family papers, 1707-1823
• Letters and papers, 1761-1832
• Diary for 1771 of Francis Parr (d. 1771), Parr's cousin
• Volume containing notes by Parr's father on his patients, later used by Parr for arithmetic exercises
• Recipe book of Caroline Lynes, early 19th century
• Copy of Walter Savage Landor, Gebir (London, 1798) with Landor's annotations

The papers were given to the Library in 1962.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 43897-906.

Recipes

Whig Party (Great Britain)

Diaries | 18th century

Landor | Walter Savage | 1775-1864 | Author

Lynes | Caroline | fl 1800-1840

Parr | Francis | d. 1771

Parr | Samuel | fl. 1727-1759

Parr | Samuel | 1747-1825 | Pedagogue