PARSONS, Lt Gen Sir Lawrence Worthington (1850-1923)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Parsons
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: PARSONS, Lt Gen Sir Lawrence Worthington (1850-1923)
Date(s)	: Created 1914-1916, 1932, [1977], 1984
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1850; Lt, Royal Artillery, 1870; Capt, 1880; Adjutant, Auxiliary Forces, 1881-1889; Maj, 1886; Lt Col, 1896; Col on Staff, South Africa, 1900-1901; Col on Staff, Salisbury Plain District, 1901-1903; Maj Gen 1903; Maj Gen, 1903; Inspector General, Artillery, India, 1903-1906; Lt Gen, 1909; commanded 6 Div, Cork, 1906-1909; retired 1909; re-employed to command 16 (Irish) Div, 1914-1915; replaced as Commanding Officer and retired, 1915; Col Commandant, Royal Artillery, 1917; died in 1923.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to 16 (Irish) Div, 1914-1918, dated 1914-1918, 1932, [1977], 1984, notably a typescript transcript of extracts from Parson's diary, 1914-1916, relating to the raising and training of 16 (Irish) Div, 1914-1915, and their service in France, 1915-1916, copied in [1977]; correspondence, 1915-1918, principally comprising letters relating to Parson's replacement as Commanding Officer, 16 (Irish) Div, Nov 1915, and to 16 (Irish) Div's service in France under Maj Gen Sir William Hickie, 1916-1918; letters from officers of 16 (Irish) Div regarding their service in France, notably the battle of the Somme, 1916, and the third Battle of Ypres, 1917; 'John Redmond and General Parsons', a draft typescript article by Esmonde Robertson (Parsons' grandson) relating to political controversies surrounding the formation of 16 (Irish) Div during the period 1914-1915, written in [1977].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1985.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Royal Artillery Institution holds diary covering his service in Natal, 1899-1900 (Ref: MD/1111/1); letters, 1901-1905, from Gen Rt Hon Sir Redvers Henry Buller, FM Sir Evelyn Wood, FM Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, Col William Riddell Birdwood, and Col Henry Crichton Sclater (Ref: MD/1111/2), letters to his wife on military operations, South African War, 1899-1900 (Ref: MD/1111/3), and letters on training manoeuvres (Ref: MD/1111/4). The National Library of Ireland holds copies of notes by Parsons on his role in World War One, while the papers of John Redmond include correspondence with Parsons relating to the 16th (Irish) Div.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Oct 1996