Lieutenant Nigel Montgomerie PARSONS
3rd Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

Date of birth: 30th April 1890
Date of death: 12th December 1979

Died aged 89
Unknown
Nigel Montgomerie Parsons was born at 55 Bedford Gardens, Kensington in London on the 30th of April 1890 the son of James Parsons, a barrister at law, and Marion Edmonstone (nee Edmonstone-Montgomerie) Parsons of 55 Bedford Gardens, Kensington.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until December 1903 where he was a member of the Choir and was Head of School in 1903. On leaving the school the magazine wrote the following on him: - "....goes to Harrow. He has been Head of the School, a member of the choir, and a first rate actor."

He went on to Harrow School where he was in Mr. Davidson's House from January 1904 to July 1908. He left for New College Oxford where he studied technical chemistry, achieving a BA in 1911 and later a MA. While at university he became a member of the Apollo University Lodge of Freemasons on the 24th of November 1908. He later became an Associate of the Institute of Chemistry. He became a member of the West Norfolk Lodge of Freemasons on the 8th of April 1914.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Wessex Brigade Royal Field Artillery on the 11th of September 1914 and went with his battery to India in December of that year. By mid 1917 he was serving in Mesopotamia and he returned to England in March 1919.

He was married to Eleanor Christine (nee Knowles) on the 17th of December 1919 at St Andrew’s Church, Nottingham and they had a daughter, born on the 8th of January 1921. They lived at 64 Chelsea Park Gardens, London SW3.

From 1920 to 1949 he worked as biochemist at the Yeast Research Laboratory, Whitbread & Co Ltd.

On the 24th of August 1939 he was mobilised for war service with the Royal Artillery as a Lieutenant (103731) and served with the Observer Corps. He transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps on the 24th of April 1943, was promoted to Captain on the 24th of July 1943 and to temporary Major on the same date. He relinquished his commission due to his age on the 4th of September 1944 and retired from the army with the rank of Honorary Major. He lived at 12 Churchfields, Salisbury in Wiltshire.

He died at Salisbury.
Went on to Harrow School

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