Name

Albert Woodward Parry

Designation
Borough Surveyor
Born
1834
Place of Birth
Salford
Location
Reading
Died
1891

  • Born : 19 January 1834 at Salford
  • Died : 13 July 1894 at Reading

Albert W Parry was born on 19 January 1834 in Salford the son of Richard Parry, builder, and articled to Thomas Tidmus Smith, architect and surveyor of Manchester From 1854 to 1863 he was chief assistant in the offices of the Borough Surveyors of Salford, Blackburn, Scarborough and Preston successively. In 1863 he entered the service of the Bradford Corporation as principal assistant in the Borough Surveyor and Waterworks Engineer’s Department and was there engaged on the scheme of main sewers for the Borough, and in the laying out and making of street improvements. He was appointed Borough Surveyor to the Corporation of Reading in September, 1871, a post which he held for over twenty years.

Residence
1881-1894 : Airedale 7 Carnarvon Road, Reading

 

Obituary :  British Architect 20 July 1894. Page 38