John Parsons b.1715/6
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John PARSONS b.1715/6
Biographical Note
Son of Sir William Parsons, 3rd baronet, of Langley, Buckinghamshire and Holborn, London. BA Merton College, Oxford 1735, MA 1739; no further details of his career have been traced, but Foster notes that he "died young".
Books
Parsons used an engraved armorial bookplate, made when he was at Merton (Franks 22824); the extent and disposition of his library are not known.
Sources
- Foster, J., Alumni Oxonienses, Oxford, 1891.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J., Franks bequest. Catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed ... by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, London, 1903-4.