Background
PARSONS, Richard Edmund Clement Fownes was born on March 14, 1928. Son of Dr R. A. Parsons.
PARSONS, Richard Edmund Clement Fownes was born on March 14, 1928. Son of Dr R. A. Parsons.
Bembridge School and Brasenose College, Oxford.
Joined Foreign Office 1951. Served Washington 1953-1956, Vientiane 58, Buenos Aires 1960-1963, Ankara 1965-1967, Lagos 1969-1972. Ambassador to Hungary 1976-1979, to Spain 1980-1984, to Sweden 1984-1987.
Married Jennifer J. Matthews in 1960 (died in 1981).