Lawrence Parsons (British Army officer)

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
Birth nameLawrence Worthington Parsons
Born23 March 1850[1]
Parsonstown, King's County, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died20 August 1923(1923-08-20) (aged 73)
Hatherton, Reigate, Surrey
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1870–1909
1914–1916
RankLieutenant-General
Commands held8th Division
6th Division
16th (Irish) Division
Battles/warsSecond Boer War
First World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Military career

Brought up in Parsonstown in King's County,[3] the only son of Lawrence Parsons.[2] He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1870.[4] 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] He was appointed Inspector General of Artillery in India in 1903, General Officer Commanding 8th Division in Ireland in 1906[5] 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

In 1880, he married Florence Anna Graves, daughter of Dr. Robert Graves of Cloghan Castle, and had one daughter.[2]

References
  1. Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2468.
  2. "Obituary: Lieutenant-General Sir Lawrence Parsons". The Times. 22 August 1923. p. 5.
  3. Irishmen or English soldiers?: the times and world of a southern Catholic By Thomas P. Dooley, p.191
  4. "Sir Lawrence Parsons". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived 26 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Army Commands Archived 2015-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
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