Commentary
After his untimely death at Pendine Sands in South Wales during his attempt to raise the world land speed record, Parry-Thomas’s body was buried in the grounds of St Mary’s Church, Byfleet, close to where he lived at the Bungalow in Brooklands.
In his biography of Parry-Thomas, Mark Berresford explains that shortly after his death it was revealed that Parry Thomas had endowed a cot at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, in London, for £50 - payment that he had received for a radio broadcast and for exhibiting his record-breaking car ‘Babs’ on the London department store, Selfridges.
Further details
- Parry Thomas and Pendine, Mark Berresford, Connor and Butler, 1985.
