Charles Wynford Parsons
{{Short description|British zoologist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
Charles Wyndford Parsons FRSE (1901–1950) was a 20th-century British zoologist.
Life
He was born in Swansea on 22 July 1901. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School then studied Zoology at Cambridge University graduating MA in 1924. He then began lecturing in Zoology at Glasgow University.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoE7AQAAIAAJ&q=charles+wynford+parsons |title = Year Book|year = 1951}}
In 1933, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir John Graham Kerr, Robert Staig, James Chumley, and John Walton.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2017-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
He died suddenly on 26 August 1950 aged only 49.
References
{{reflist}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Parsons, Charles Wynford}}
Category:Scientists from Swansea
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:20th-century British zoologists
Category:Academics of the University of Glasgow
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:People educated at Bristol Grammar School
{{UK-zoologist-stub}}