Glyndwr John Robert Parry (GJR Parry) FRHistS[1] was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire on October 31, 1953. He attended the University of Cambridge, gaining with a PhD in History in 1981. In 1987 he published A Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation of Elizabethan England with Cambridge University Press. As of 2010[update], he is a senior lecturer in history at Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand.[2]