Henry Hallam Parr
{{Short description|English army officer}}
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Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|CMG}} (24 July 1847 – 4 April 1914) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding North-Western District.
Military career
Educated at Twyford School, Hallam Parr was commissioned as an ensign in the 13th Regiment of Foot on 8 September 1865.{{London Gazette|issue=23011|page=4320|date=8 September 1865}} He fought in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879, in the First Boer War in 1881 and in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882.{{cite book|last=Keown-Boyd|first=Henry|title=Soldiers of the Nile: Biographical History of the British Officers of the Egyptian Army, 1882-1925|publisher=Thornbury Publications|year=1996|isbn=978-0952804703}} He also saw action at the Battle of Tamai in March 1884 and took part in the Nile Expedition later that year during the Mahdist War. He served as adjutant-general to Lord Grenfell, in his capacity as Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, in the late 1880s.{{cite web|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/19th-may-1917/16/major-general-sir-henry-hallam-parr-recollections-|title=Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr: Recollections and Correspondence|publisher=The Spectator|accessdate=2 July 2016}} He became Commander, Shorncliffe Garrison, in July 1898, General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in October 1899 and General Officer Commanding North-Western District in May 1902; he retired in November 1903.{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |title=Army Commands |accessdate=2 July 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112744/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |archivedate=4 March 2016 }}
He was colonel of the Somerset Light Infantry from May 1910{{London Gazette|issue=28362|page=3064|date=3 May 1910}} until his death in 1914.
Works
- {{cite book|last=Parr|first=Henry Hallam|title=Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr: Recollections and Correspondence|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2008|isbn=978-1437131970}}
References
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Category:British Army major generals
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Category:Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Somerset Light Infantry officers
Category:British Army personnel of the Anglo-Zulu War
Category:British military personnel of the First Boer War
Category:British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War