Terry Parsons

Terence Parsons (19 June 1935 – 8 May 1999) was a Welsh amateur snooker player. He won five Welsh national snooker championship titles and an Amateur World Championship title during his professional career. He became a Welsh national champion in 1961, 1965, 1969, 1982 and 1984 and won the World Amateur Snooker Championship in 1982 at the age of 47.

Career Parsons won his maiden Welsh Amateur Snooker Championship title in 1961 with a comfortable 6–2 win over John Price in the final. He registered his second Welsh Amateur Snooker Championship title win in 1965 with a 6–2 win over Bob Berryman. In 1969, he won his third Welsh Snooker Championship title with a 6–1 victory over John Prosser. He also became the fourth Welsh snooker player to win Snooker World Championship after Gary Owen, Doug Mountjoy and Cliff Wilson. Parsons's world triumph outside Wales was considered as a great achievement since he had the prolonged issue of homesickness.

He won the 1985 WPBSA Pro Ticket Series 87-88 professional tour qualifiers defeating Robert Marshall in the final. However, he lost to Harry Morgan in the round 1 of the 1986 WPBSA Pro Ticket Series 87-88 professional tour qualifiers. He was knocked out of last 16 of the 1985 Welsh Amateur Snooker Championship after losing to England's Bob Dorkins.

In addition, he also served as a postman in the Rhondda Valley sending mails. He spent most of his time at the Pen-y-graig Labour Club and played a pivotal role in steering the club to record seven CIU finals including four titles.

Amateur finals: 8 (6 titles)