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Martin Willoughby Parr

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Martin Parr was the son of the Rev. Willoughby Chase Parr and Laura, daughter of Colonel Francklyn of Speen Hill Lodge, Newbury. His maternal grandmother was Jane Francklyn, daughter of Sir
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Parr was vice-president of the National Association of Boys Clubs, working particularly with the Crown & Manor boys' club in
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and became Private Secretary to the Governor-General, 1927–33 and Deputy Civil Secretary, 1933–34. He was Governor of the
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Rev Willoughby Chase Parr and Laura Parr, daughter of Col. Francklyn
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British colonial governor and Alderman of the London County Council
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1917–18, returning to France in 1918. He lost an eye during the
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tribesmen, initially somewhat to the disadvantage of the former"
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Catalogue of papers of M W Parr deposited at Durham University
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Shadows in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1918-1956
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Empire on the Nile: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898-1934
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He was a prominent member of the congregation of the
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Index

CBE
CBE
CBE
OBE
British
Equatoria
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Samuel Cunard
Winchester College
Brasenose College, Oxford
Greats
Rugby football
half-blue
rifle shooting
commissioned
Highland Light Infantry
World War I
France
Palestine
Battle of Neuve Chapelle
Sudan Political Service
Upper Nile
Equatoria
London
Hoxton
The Times
Dinka
Gordon
Woking
Gordon's School

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