Lieutenant-General Sir Lawrence Worthington Parsons KCB (23 March 1850 – 20 August 1923) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 6th Division.[2]
Sir Lawrence Parsons | |
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| Birth name | Lawrence Worthington Parsons |
| Born | 23 March 1850[1] Parsonstown, King's County, Ireland |
| Died | 20 August 1923 (aged 73) Hatherton, Reigate, Surrey |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1870–1909 1914–1916 |
| Rank | Lieutenant-General |
| Commands | 8th Division 6th Division 16th (Irish) Division |
| Battles / wars | Second Boer War First World War |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Military career
editParsons was brought up in Parsonstown in King's County,[3] the only son of Lawrence Parsons.[2] He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a lieutenant on 23 July 1870,[4][5] then promoted to captain on 16 September 1880, to major on 1 July 1886, and to lieutenant-colonel on 1 October 1896.[6] He served in the Second Boer War and took part in the Battle of Colenso, the Battle of Spion Kop and the Relief of Ladysmith,[4] following which he was promoted to substantive colonel on 23 April 1900. After returning to the United Kingdom, he was in January 1901 appointed Colonel on the Staff Commanding Royal Artillery in the 2nd Army Corps on Salisbury Plain.[6] In early 1903, he was appointed Inspector General of Artillery in India.[7] He was then appointed General Officer Commanding 8th Division in Ireland in 1906[8] and General Officer Commanding 6th Division also in Ireland in 1907 before retiring in 1909.[4] He was recalled as General Officer Commanding 16th (Irish) Division in 1914 at the start of the First World War and retired again in 1916.[4]
Family
editIn 1880, he married Florence Anna Graves, daughter of Dr. Robert Graves of Cloghan Castle, and had one daughter.[2]
References
edit- ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2468.
- ^ a b c "Obituary: Lieutenant-General Sir Lawrence Parsons". The Times. 22 August 1923. p. 5.
- ^ Irishmen or English soldiers?: the times and world of a southern Catholic By Thomas P. Dooley, p.191
- ^ a b c d "Sir Lawrence Parsons". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived 26 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "No. 23646". The London Gazette. 22 July 1870. p. 3479.
- ^ a b Hart′s list, 1903
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36973. London. 9 January 1903. p. 5.
- ^ Army Commands Archived 2015-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
External links
edit- . . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. – via Wikisource.