Isabella & Hubert Parry

Isabella and Hubert Parry. . , Anna Maria Isabella Parry nee Fynes-Clinton , 1816-1848, Mrs Anna Maria Isabella Parry, known as Isabella, was wife to the artist and collector Thomas Gambier Parry. She travelled widely with him and was engaged with him in the design and construction of a village church in Gloucestershire to benefit the scattered residents on their estate., By 1848 she and her husband were expecting their sixth child. Of delicate health and suffering from tuberculosis, Isabella travelled to Bournemouth from her Gloucestershire home on medical advice. Twelve days after giving birth to a son, Isabella died. Charles Hubert Hastings Parry was baptised in St Peter's church two days after Isabella's interment there and taken home by his grieving father to be raised with his two older siblings at Highnam Court, Gloucestershire., Sir Hubert Parry , 1848-1918, Hubert, the only one of Isabella's children to reach adulthood, was to become known as Sir Hubert Parry, one of Britain's most creative and prolific composers of choral music, oratories and anthems. His music includes 'I Was Glad' which the Duchess of Cambridge walked down the aisle to when she married Prince William in 2011. However, Parry is most well-known for the choral setting to William Blake's words for Jerusalem., Hubert would often return to Bournemouth at the invitation of Sir Dan Godfrey to conduct the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra at the Winter Gardens Concert Hall. On such occasions he would visit his mother's grave in this churchyard.