Political and Personal Views
Even amid the terrors of the French Revolution, Parr adhered to Whiggism, and his correspondence included every man of eminence, either literary or political, who adopted the same creed. He was an adamant support of Charles James Fox, and vehemently disliked William Pitt the Younger.
In private life, his model was Johnson. He succeeded in copying Johnson's uncouthness and pompous manner, but had neither his humour nor his real authority. He was famous as a writer of epitaphs and wrote inscriptions for the tombs of Burke, Charles Burney, Johnson, Fox and Gibbon.
As for Parr's religious views:
My principles, I am sure, will never endanger the church - my studies, I hope, are such as do not disgrace it - and my actions, I can say with confidence, have ever tended to preserve it from open, and what I conceive to be unjust attacks.
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