Frederic John Sidney Parry

Who was Frederic John Sidney Parry?

Frederic John Sidney Parry was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, principally Lucanidae.

Frederic Parry was educated at Harrow School. He was an army major. He wrote "Description of a new genus of Lucanidae from New Zealand", "A decade or description of ten new species from the Kasya Hills near the boundary of the Assam district" and 17 further papers. The last was "Description of a new species of Chiasognathus". "Catalogue of Lucanoid Coleoptera with illustrations and descriptions of various new and interesting species" listed 357 species.

Parry was a friend of John Obadiah Westwood and lived at Onslow Square, London, close to the Natural History Museum, then the British Museum.

He was a Fellow of both the Entomological Society of London and the Linnean Society.

Many of Parry's specimens were purchased by René Oberthür and other dealers and collectors. They are now conserved in the Natural History Museum. Duplicate specimens from these families and all the Paussidae are in Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.