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Her father, Patrick Brontë, was the parson of the local parish.
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V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
Around 1914, Peter and Laurie Kerr commissioned Portland architect Ellis F. Lawrence, who was the first dean of the University of Oregon’s architecture department, to design a new home based on a Scottish country parson’s manse.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
Peacock, talented, attractive, amatory, and a good friend to the bohemian Shelley circle, married, rather surprisingly, a Welsh parson’s daughter, Jane Gryffydh, who was ill at ease in London and developed life-long mental illness after the death of one of her children.
—Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
Charles Darwin was a companion to Captain FitzRoy of the Beagle with time to see the world before planning to return and become a parson.
—Catherine Hoffman, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2020
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V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
Around 1914, Peter and Laurie Kerr commissioned Portland architect Ellis F. Lawrence, who was the first dean of the University of Oregon’s architecture department, to design a new home based on a Scottish country parson’s manse.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
Peacock, talented, attractive, amatory, and a good friend to the bohemian Shelley circle, married, rather surprisingly, a Welsh parson’s daughter, Jane Gryffydh, who was ill at ease in London and developed life-long mental illness after the death of one of her children.
—Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
Charles Darwin was a companion to Captain FitzRoy of the Beagle with time to see the world before planning to return and become a parson.
—Catherine Hoffman, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2020
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“Parson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parson. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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