Gordon Parry, Baron Parry

Gordon Samuel David Parry, Baron Parry (usually Lord Parry) (30 November 1925 – 1 September 2004) was a Welsh Labour politician.

He was created a Life Peer as Baron Parry, of Neyland in the County of Dyfed on 21 January 1976 by the Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

The son of Reverend Thomas Lewis Parry and his wife, Anne Parry, Lord Parry's early childhood days were mostly spent around his father's church, Molleston Baptist Church in Pembrokeshire. His university education was at Trinity College, Carmarthen.

Lord Parry was a schoolteacher prior to going into politics, standing as a Labour Party candidate in the Pembrokeshire constituency. but before then, as a young teen, he was a regular at Bethesda Baptist Chapel, Neyland, where his father was then pastor, and where today young Parry's name is preserved in the form of graffiti scratched into one of the pews.

Parry stood for election to Parliament on several occasions without success. He fought Monmouth in 1959, being defeated by the Conservative incumbent Peter Thorneycroft. He was beaten to the Labour nomination for the 1960 Ebbw Vale by-election by Michael Foot, and he contested three very close elections at Pembrokeshire in 1970, February and October 1974, each time coming within 1,500 votes of winning.

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