About Charles Wynford Parsons
Lived 1901 – 1950 (aged 49). Charles Wynford Parsons was a British zoologist.
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.
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.
He died suddenly on 26 August 1950 aged only 49.
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British zoologist
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Charles Wynford Parsons was born on 22 July 1901 in Swansea.
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Charles Wynford Parsons died on 26 August 1950.
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