Editing Hubert Parry (section)

===Last years===
[[File:Parry-cigarette-card-1914.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Parry shown on a 1914 cigarette card]]
[[File:Memorial to Hubert Parry in Gloucester Cathedral.jpg|thumb|Memorial to Hubert Parry in [[Gloucester Cathedral]]. Inscription by [[Robert Bridges]]]]
Parry resigned his Oxford appointment on medical advice in 1908 and, in the last decade of his life, produced some of his best-known works, including the ''Symphonic Fantasia 1912'' (also called ''Symphony No. 5''), the ''Ode on the Nativity'' (1912) and the ''[[Songs of Farewell]]'' (1916–1918). The piece by which he is best known, the setting of William Blake's poem "[[And did those feet in ancient time]]" (1916), was immediately taken up by the suffragist movement, with which both Parry and his wife were strongly in sympathy.<ref name=dnb/>

Parry held German music and its traditions to be the pinnacle of music, and was a friend of German culture in general. He was, accordingly, certain that Britain and Germany would never go to war against each other, and was in despair when [[World War I]] broke out. In the words of the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'': "During the war he watched a life's work of progress and education being wiped away as the male population, particularly the new fertile generation of composing talent—of the Royal College, dwindled."<ref name=dnb/> During the war, he acted as chairman of the Music in Wartime Committee, and did much to relieve the prevailing distress among poorer musicians.<ref>{{Cite EB1922|title=Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings|volume=34|page=34|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabri32newyrich/page/34/mode/1up|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

In the autumn of 1918 Parry contracted [[Spanish flu]] during the global [[pandemic]] and died at Knightscroft, [[Rustington]], West Sussex, on 7 October aged 70. The death certificate says cause of death: 1. Influenza; 2. Septicaemia. His daughter, Gwendoline Maud Greene, was present at his death.<!-- <ref>Copy death certificate</ref> <- That's not a reference. -->At the urging of Stanford, he was buried in [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. The site of his birthplace, in Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, next door to [[The Square, Bournemouth|the Square]], is marked with a [[blue plaque]]; there is a memorial tablet, with an inscription by the Poet Laureate, [[Robert Bridges]], in Gloucester Cathedral, unveiled during the [[Three Choirs Festival]] of 1922.<ref name=dnb/> Parry's baronetcy became extinct at his death. Highnam passed to his half-brother, Major [[Ernest Gambier-Parry]].<ref name=parks>{{cite web|title=Highnam Court, Gloucester, England|url=http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/1725/history|publisher=[[Parks and Gardens UK]]|access-date=27 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025071015/http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/1725/history|archive-date=25 October 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>