How interesting - after I asked myself the above question, I came across a very brief comment by Shippey in
Author of the Century:
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...Parish, whose time in the Workhouse has clearly been spent in making him less practical, not more so.
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Other than that, I don't think I've read any other thoughts on this - and I have researched fairly extensively.
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