Martin Willoughby Parr
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Martin Parr CBE | |
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| Born | 22 November 1892 |
| Died | 15 June 1985 (aged 92) |
| Education | Winchester College and Brasenose College, Oxford |
| Occupations | British colonial governor and Alderman of the London County Council |
| Known for | Governor of the Upper Nile and Equatoria, Sudan |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Parent(s) | Rev Willoughby Chase Parr and Laura Parr, daughter of Col. Francklyn |
| Awards | CBE |
Martin Willoughby Parr CBE (22 November 1892 – 15 June 1985), CBE (1944, OBE 1929), was a governor of the British-administered province of Equatoria in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
Martin Parr was the son of the Rev. Willoughby Chase Parr and Laura, daughter of Colonel Francklyn of Speen Hill Lodge, Newbury.[1] His maternal grandmother was Jane Francklyn, daughter of Sir Samuel Cunard, baronet. His brother Jack was a master at Winchester College. He was educated at Winchester College (Scholar) and Brasenose College, Oxford (Scholar) where he read Greats. He played Rugby football for Oxford University 1913–14, and had a half-blue for rifle shooting, 1913–14.
Career
Parr was commissioned in the Highland Light Infantry at the start of the World War I in 1914 and served in France 1914–15 and in Palestine 1917–18, returning to France in 1918. He lost an eye during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
In 1919 Parr joined the Sudan Political Service and became Private Secretary to the Governor-General, 1927–33 and Deputy Civil Secretary, 1933–34. He was Governor of the Upper Nile, 1934–36; and Governor of Equatoria, 1936–42. He retired from the Sudan in 1942 and lived the rest of his life in London.