{{Short description|English army officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Major-General |name=Sir Henry Hallam Parr |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|CMG}} |image= |caption= |birth_date=24 July 1847 |death_date={{death-date and age|4 April 1914|24 July 1847}} |birth_place= |death_place= |burial_place= |burial_label= |nickname= |allegiance={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |branch=23px British Army |service_years=1865–1903 |rank=Major-General |unit= |commands=North-Western District |battles=Anglo-Zulu War<br>First Boer War<br>Anglo-Egyptian War<br>Mahdist War |awards=Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath<br>Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George |relations= |other_work= }} Major-General '''Sir Henry Hallam Parr''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|CMG}} (24 July 1847 – 4 April 1914) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding North-Western District. ==Military career== Educated at Twyford School, Hallam Parr was commissioned as an ensign in the 13th Regiment of Foot on 8 September 1865.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23011|page=4320|date=8 September 1865}}</ref> He fought in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879, in the First Boer War in 1881 and in the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882.<ref name=boyd>{{cite book|last=Keown-Boyd|first=Henry|title=Soldiers of the Nile: Biographical History of the British Officers of the Egyptian Army, 1882-1925|publisher=Thornbury Publications|year=1996|isbn=978-0952804703}}</ref> He also saw action at the Battle of Tamai in March 1884 and took part in the Nile Expedition later that year during the Mahdist War.<ref name=boyd/> He served as adjutant-general to Lord Grenfell, in his capacity as Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, in the late 1880s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/19th-may-1917/16/major-general-sir-henry-hallam-parr-recollections-|title=Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr: Recollections and Correspondence|publisher=The Spectator|accessdate=2 July 2016}}</ref> He became Commander, Shorncliffe Garrison, in July 1898, General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in October 1899 and General Officer Commanding North-Western District in May 1902; he retired in November 1903.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |title=Army Commands |accessdate=2 July 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112744/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf |archivedate=4 March 2016 }}</ref>
He was colonel of the Somerset Light Infantry from May 1910<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28362|page=3064|date=3 May 1910}}</ref> until his death in 1914.
==Works== *{{cite book|last=Parr|first=Henry Hallam|title=Major-General Sir Henry Hallam Parr: Recollections and Correspondence|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2008|isbn=978-1437131970}}
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