William Kaye-Parry was born in County Dublin, Ireland on 28 June 1853 and was articled to John J, McCurdy (c.1824-1885) in Dublin from 1870 to 1873. He then studied engineering at at Trinity College, Dublin from where he graduated in 1875. In 1880 he won a competition for a design for a concert hall at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. From 1889 to 1903 he was surveyor to the Kingstown Estate in Dublin. He commenced practice as an architect and civil engineer in Dublin in 1877. From 1889 to 1903 he was surveyor to the Kingstown Estate. In 1899 he formed a partnership with George Murray Ross (1852-1927). The practice specialised in domestic sanitation and undertook a number significant drainage and sewage schemes.
In 1927, following the death of Ross, Kaye-Parry took his assistant, Arnold Francis Hendy (1894-1958) into partnership, the practice being known as Kay-Parry & Hendy.
Kaye-Parry was elected a member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) in 1883 and a Fellow of the RIAI in 1899. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) that year. He was vice-president of the RIAI from 1914 to 1916 and its president from 1917 to 1919. Towards the end of his life, Kaye-Parry moved to London where he died on 10 November 1932. His address was given as 136 Delaware Mansions, Paddington, London, at time of death.
As an architect he has designed and carried out the Kingstown Pavilion; Alexandra School, Dublin; Men's Institute, Kingstown; Hackett Memorial Hall, Bray; Provincial Bank. Fermoy; De Vescl Memorial Hall, Abboyleix; additions to Masonic Orphan Boys' School and Masonic Female Orphan School; Gregg Memorial Hall, Dublin; Swimming and Slipper Baths for the Kingstown and also for the Warrenpoint Urban District Councils: Peamount Sanatorium for her Excellency the Countess of Aberdeen: additions to Castle Forbes for the Earl of Granard, and a large number of private houses and business premises; acted with partner as Consulting Architects to Irish International Exhibition 1907; at present engaged upon extensive additions to the Royal Hospital for Incurables; Convalescent Home at Newtownforbes for the Countess of Granard, and pier and baths for the Pembroke Urban District Council. As a civil engineer has carried out a large number of works, Including extension and widening of Ballsbridge, Dublin: Armagh drainage and sewage disposal works; water supply for Howth; Shone ejector sewage lifting installation for Blackrock; sewage purification works for Tipperary and Mitchelstown. Also many works of drainage, sewage disposal, and water supply at large residences in various parts of the kingdom. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1914]
Works: Dublin International Exhibition, 1907; Castle Freke, Co. Cork, 1912; Kingstown Pavilion, 1903; Alexandra School, Dublin, 1897; Peamount (1912), and Armagh (1914) Sanatoria; Convalescent Home, Newtownforbes, 1914; Memorial Halls at: — Abbeyleix (1905); Curragh Camp (1919); and at Bray. Men's Christian Institute, Kingstown; Royal Victoria Baths, Kingstown, 1907; Open Sea Baths, Bangor, Co. Down, 1906; new bath house for Trinity College, Dublin, 1922; Provincial Bank, Fermoy, Co. Cork, 1899; business premises for Edward Lee and Co., In Dublin, Kingstown and Rathmlnes. Additions to: — Royal Hospital for Incurables, 1913; Shelbourne HoteL Dublin; Castle Forbes, Co. Longford; Feemasons' Hall, Dublin; Masonic Orphan Boys' School, Clonskea; sold the Masonic Orphan Girls' School, Balls Bridge. (All works executed since 1899 have been carried out in partnership with Geo. W. Ross.) [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1923]
For a list of architectural projects by Kaye-Parry 1877-1910 see the Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940.
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001