Congleton, in Cheshire. His father, Thomas Parnell, was attached to the Commonwealth party, and at the restoration went over to Ireland, where he purchased a considerable estate, which, with his property in Cheshire, descended to our poet.
Parnell was born in Dublin, in 1679, and was educated at the school of Dr. Jones in that city; he is said to have distinguished himself by an extraordinary quickness of memory, which enabled him in one night to complete a task that was intended to confine him many days, and it is said that he could repeat forty lines of any book after the first reading. It is probable that this account,
Playfair's British Family Antiquity, vol. ix. p. cxvii. in the absence of better authority, and who observes that of Irish baronets very little is known.
| Thomas Parnell, member of a family long resident at Congleton, county Chester, purchased an estate in Ireland, temp. Charles II. and settled in that kingdom. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thomas Parnell, Clerk, son and heir, Archdeacon of Clogher, 1705, &c. The Poet ob. 1717. | Ann, daughter of Thomas Minchin, esq. | John Parnell, Judge, K.B. in Ireland, 1722. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Two sons and one daughter. Died before their father. | Sir John Parnell, 1st bart, ob. 1782. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sir John Parnell, 2nd bart. ob. 1801. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sir John Augustus Parnell, 3rd bart. ob. 1812. | Right Hon. Sir Henry Parnell, 4th and present bart. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
N.B. Nothing is said of the family in Ormerod's Cheshire.
