High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Samuel Parr (26 January 1747 – 6 March 1825), was an English schoolmaster, writer, minister and Doctor of Law. He was known in his time for political writing, and (flatteringly) as "the Whig Johnson", though his reputation has lasted less well that Samuel Johnson`s, and the resemblances were at a superficial level, Parr being no prose stylist, even if he was an influential literary figure.