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A Discourse on Education and on the Plans pursued in Charity-Schools.

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First and only edition of this treatise on education, first delivered as a sermon, by the noted schoolmaster and writer Samuel Parr (1747–1825).

Known as ‘the Whig Johnson’, the entertainingly controversial Parr led a varied career as a schoolmaster, teaching at Harrow from 1766 but failing to be appointed Head Master in 1771 – provoking a riot from the boys – whereupon he established his own school at Stanmore, bringing with him forty pupils from Harrow. On the failure of this venture in 1777 he was appointed Master of Colchester Grammar School and, the following year, of Norwich; he resigned, however, at Michaelmas 1785 to take up residency as curate at Hatton, where he took on private pupils in his parsonage. Throughout his life he engaged enthusiastically in both academic and political controversy, supporting Priestley and Fox, becoming a confidant of and chaplain to Queen Caroline, and clashing with (amongst others) Godwin and Horne Tooke. The first part of his discourse treats of the nature and necessity of education, citing both Mandeville and Rousseau as enemies of education, before in the second part dealing with charity schools in more detail, quoting Smith at length and arguing for independent charity schools over state-sponsored education.

ESTC records another issue known in a single copy, with the same collation but giving the imprint ‘Norwich: Printed by John Crouse’ and naming neither the London nor the Norwich publishers.

ESTC T148541 (see also N510302).

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