About John Parslow
Lived 1935 – 2015 (aged 80). John Parslow was a British ornithologist.
John Leonard Frederick Parslow (1935–2015) was an English ornithologist and author.
Parslow was born on 10 July 1935 in London, and, after wartime evacuation to Cornwall, was educated at Chingford Grammar School. He undertook National Service at RAF Bawdsey, as a radar operator, from which he was demobbed in 1952. He was also involved in the creation of a bird observatory at St. Agnes on the Isles of Scilly, which operated from 1957 to 1967. and was buried at the Arbory Trust Woodland Burial Ground in Barton, Cambridgeshire. He was married twice, to Rosemary, with whom he had a son and two daughters, and to Mariko, who survived him.
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Who was John Parslow?
English ornithologist and author
When was John Parslow born?
John Parslow was born on 10 July 1935 in London.
When did John Parslow die?
John Parslow died on 23 October 2015.
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John Parslow was an ornithologist.
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John Parslow was British.
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