Parr, Catherine, sixth wife of Henry VIII., daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal, was a woman of learning and great discretion, acquired great power over the king, persuaded him to consent to the succession of his daughters, and surviving him, married her former suitor Sir Thomas Seymour, and died from the effects of childbirth the year after (1512‒1548).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Paros * Parr, Samuel