R. Ifor Parry

Parry earned a reputation as a preacher at Aberdare, although his modern views on theology and the teaching of the Bible, clashed with the more traditional views of an older generation.^[1] He was invited to preach throughout Wales and at annual meetings both of his own denomination and other organisations.^[1] Parry also published a number of books and articles, in Welsh, mainly on various aspects of the history of nonconformity.^[1] He was also a noted local historian, who wrote a column for the local paper, the Aberdare Leader.^[1]

Possibly due to a decline in membership, Price's long pastorate at Siloa came to an end in 1964, when he became Head of Religious Studies at Aberdare Boys‘ Grammar School. Ifor Parry died on 18 December 1975, and he left a substantial sum of money to the Aberdare Boys‘ Grammar School to endow the ‘Mona and Ifor Parry Trust Fund,’ the income from which was to be used, in part, to award an annual prize for local history.