Major Ernest Gambier-Parry was a British military officer who participated in an expedition to the Sudan to avenge the grisly death of a renowned general in 1885.
26 Facts About Ernest Gambier-Parry
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Ernest Gambier-Parry succeeded to the manor at Highnam Court following the death of his half-brother Sir Hubert Parry.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry, son of Thomas Gambier-Parry and his second wife Ethelinda Lear, was born on 25 October 1853 at Highnam Court, Highnam, Gloucestershire.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry's father was an artist, philanthropist, and art collector.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry's half-brother was the composer Sir Hubert Parry, Thomas Gambier-Parry's son by his first wife Anna Maria Isabella Clinton.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry was educated at Eton, where he studied under William Evans, the drawing master at Eton, from 1866 to 1871.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry was promoted to lieutenant and, on 2 December 1874, he joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers in that rank.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry became an instructor of musketry to the 2nd Battalion in 1880 and was at the Royal Citadel, Plymouth, in 1881.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry resigned as instructor of musketry on 22 August 1881.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry participated as a special service officer in the Suakin Expedition of March 1885 commanded by Major-General Sir Gerald Graham VC, following the Siege of Khartoum, to avenge the murder of General Charles George Gordon in January 1885.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry was invalided from the army and resigned his commission.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1918.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry was the president of the Gloucester Children's Hospital that had been established by his father.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry was a member of the Gloucester Committee of the Three Choirs Festival.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry often exhibited his paintings at the Royal Academy and other venues.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry was reluctant to sell the collection of paintings and other art objects that his father had collected over his lifetime.
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The Gambier-Parry archive included an 1897 inventory of the estate that Ernest Gambier-Parry compiled and was used in the research of the collection for the Courtauld Institute.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry's inventory documented prominent members of the art world who were friends of his father and viewed the collection.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry documented the visits and the impressions or detailed appraisals offered by the experts.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry married Evelyn Elizabeth Palk, daughter of Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon, in 1882.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry resided with his wife and children in Goring-on-Thames in 1891, but had moved into Highnam Court by 1894.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry moved out and his brother moved into Highnam Court.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry lived in Goring prior to Hubert Parry's death in 1918, at which time he succeeded him to the estate at Highnam Court.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry's elder son Thomas Robert Gambier-Parry was a botanist.
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Ernest Gambier-Parry became curator of the Department of Oriental Collections at the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.
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Major Ernest Gambier-Parry died on 15 April 1936 at Highnam Court.