Background
PARSONS, Charles Algernon was born on June 13, 1854. 4th son of 3rd E. of Rosse.
PARSONS, Charles Algernon was born on June 13, 1854. 4th son of 3rd E. of Rosse.
Private tuition; St. John’s College Cambridge (Honourable. Master of Arts; Doctor of Laws. Doctor of Science.
Fellow); elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1898. High Sheriff, Northumberland. C. B. 1904; Justice of the Peace Northumberland; engineer, proprietor of the electrical and engineering works, C. A. Parsons & Company, at Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne; chairman and joint - managing director of The Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Ltd.; director of the Cambridge Electric Supply Company Ltd., and the Scarborough Electric Supply Company Ltd.; the Parsons Foreign Patents Company Ltd.; has developed the steam turbine and made it suitable for the generation of electricity and the propulsion of war and mercantile vessels; member of Tariff Commission, 1904.
Fellow of the Royal Society. Clubs: Athenaeum, Junior Carlton; Northern Counties, Newcastle-on-Tyne.