Laurence Edmund Parsons was an eminent
Anglican
clergyman in the 20th century.
[1]
He was born on 22 July 1883
[2] and educated at
Winchester,
Christ Church and
Cuddesdon.
[3]
Ordained in 1908,
[4] he initially held
curacies at St Bartholomew’s,
Leeds.
[5] then
Chaplain to the
Bishop of Southwark before becoming a
missionary in
Shandong. Later he was
Vicar of
Chippenham then
Dean of
Cape Town. After this he was Director of the South African Church Institute then
General Secretary of the
SPCK until his retirement in 1954. He died on 17 December 1972
[6]