Robert Mann Parsons
Royal Engineers officer
About Robert Mann Parsons
Lived 1829 – 1897 (aged 67). Robert Mann Parsons was a British military engineer.
Robert Mann Parsons (29 September 1829 – 20 May 1897) was a British Royal Engineer who was one of seven officers of the elite Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, that founded British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866).
He was born on 29 September 1829 in Peckham, Surrey.
He was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,
He was Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey Office at Southampton, England, during 1869.
He resided at 21 Hyde Vale, Greenwich, Kent, and died at Greenwich
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Royal Engineers officer
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Robert Mann Parsons was born on 29 September 1829.
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Robert Mann Parsons died on 20 May 1897 in Hyde Vale.
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Robert Mann Parsons was a military engineer.
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Robert Mann Parsons was British.
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