Charles Algernon Parsons
1854 - 1931
- Born
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13 June 1854
Connaught Place, Hyde Park, London, England
- Died
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11/02/1931
On board the 'Duchess of Richmond' at Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 09/06/1898
- Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 44
- Fields of Interest
- Engineering
- Occupation
- Engineer
- Relationships
- Parents: William Parsons, third earl of Rosse (1800–1867) (FRS 1831), and Mary Parsons, countess of Rosse (1813–1885), photographer, elder daughter of John Wilmer Field, of Heaton Hall, Yorkshire. Siblings: Laurence Parsons (FRS 1867), fourth Earl of Rosse. Spouse: Katherine Bethell (d. 1933), the daughter of William Froggatt Bethell of Rise Park, East Riding of Yorkshire (1883). Children: Rachel Mary Parsons (1885–1956); Algernon George Parsons (1886–1918), killed in action during World War I.
- Catalogue
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- Wikipedia
- View wikipedia entry
Author of
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Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'The conversion of diamond into coke in high vacuum by cathode rays' by Charles Algernon Parsons and Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
Creator: William Crookes Reference number: RR/17/207 -
Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Experiments on the artificial production of diamond' by Charles Algernon Parsons
Creator: John Allen Harker Reference number: RR/25/41 -
Referee's report by Robert Abbott Hadfield, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Experiments on the artificial production of diamond' by Charles Algernon Parsons
Creator: Robert Abbott Hadfield Reference number: RR/25/42