Parr, Samuel (1747‒1825)

Parr, Samuel, a famous classical scholar, born at Harrow; became head-master of first Colchester and then Norwich Grammar-School and a prebend of St. Paul's; he had an extraordinary memory and was a great talker; he was a good Latinist, but nothing he has left justifies the high repute in which he was held by his contemporaries (1747‒1825).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)