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Authorised form of nameParsons; Sir; Charles Algernon (1854 - 1931); engineer
Dates1854 - 1931
NationalityBritish
Place of birthConnaught Place, Hyde Park, London, England
Date of birth13 June 1854
Place of deathOn board the 'Duchess of Richmond' at Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
Date of death11/02/1931
Dates and placesBurial: Parish church of St Bartholomew's, Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland, England.
OccupationEngineer
Research fieldEngineering
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Dublin; St John's College, Cambridge MA
Career:
Began an apprenticeship at the works of Sir William Armstrong & Co. at Elswick, Tyneside; worked at Kitson & Co. of Leeds where he developed a four-cylinder-high speed epicycloidal steam engine, which he also patented, and pursued experimenting on the propulsion of torpedoes by means of rockets (1881-3); junior partner in Clarke, Chapman & Co. of Gateshead, taking charge of their electrical department; founded the firm C. A. Parsons & Co bringing back his patent rights, and establishing a small works at Heaton (1889); devoted himself to steam-turbine propulsion of ships by establishing a separate organisation with works a Wallsend, and formed a separate company, later known as the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company (1884); the Admiralty tasked him with the construction of a 30 knot turbine-driven destroyer, the Viper (1899); launched the first turbine-powered passenger ship, Clyde steamer TS King Edward (1901); the first turbine transatlantic liners RMS Victorian and Virginian (1905); and the first turbine-powered battleship, HMS Dreadnought (1906); acquired a controlling interest in the optical firm of Ross Ltd, of Clapham where he introduced improvements in glass-grinding methods (1921); purchased the Derby Crown Glass Company, and under the name of the Parsons Optical Glass Company produced about a hundred different kinds of glass for optical purposes (1922); purchased the firm of Sir Howard Grubb & Sons, makers of large astronomical telescopes, and built new works for it at Walkergate (1925); died of neuritis whilst on a cruise with his wife (1954).
Honours:
CB 1904; KCB 1911; OM 1927
Memberships:
MICE
Awards/Medals:
Albert Medal 1911
Franklin Medal 1920
Faraday medal 1923
Kelvin medal 1926
Bessemer Gold Medal 1929
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1898
Age at election44
ProposerWilliam Anderson; George Johnstone Stoney; William Cawthorne Unwin; William Edward Ayrton; Charles Vernon Boys; John Isaac Thornycroft; William Henry Preece
Andrew Noble; William Thomson [Lord Kelvin]; Armstrong; William Henry White; Frederick Bramwell; John Hopkinson; John Perry; George Gabriel Stokes; Joseph John Thomson
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1908-1909
Medals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1902; Copley Medal 1928
Lectures:
Bakerian 1918
RelationshipsParents: William Parsons, third earl of Rosse (1800–1867) (FRS 1831), and Mary Parsons, countess of Rosse (1813–1885), photographer, elder daughter of John Wilmer Field, of Heaton Hall, Yorkshire.
Siblings: Laurence Parsons (FRS 1867), fourth Earl of Rosse.
Spouse: Katherine Bethell (d. 1933), the daughter of William Froggatt Bethell of Rise Park, East Riding of Yorkshire (1883).
Children: Rachel Mary Parsons (1885–1956); Algernon George Parsons (1886–1918), killed in action during World War I.
General contextRemembered for the steam turbine.
Invented the ‘auxetophone'.
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1931 vol 131 pp v-xxv, plate, signed by J A E
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/48285664
Royal Society codeNA3128
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1898/11Parsons, Sir Charles Algernon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/525/5/2/50Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland, to [Robert Harrison] Assistant Secretary, Royal Society21 August 1915
MS/525/5/4/5Receipt from Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, 5 Carlos Place, to [Dugald] Clerk14 January 1917
MS/525/5/2/44Telegram from Charles Parsons, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Dugald Clerk, Holborn, London14 July 1915
NLB/64/92Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, FRS30 June 1923
MS/525/6/6/3/2Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, C A Parsons and Company Limited, Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk6 May 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/15Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk 8 July 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/12Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Northumberland, to [Dugald] Clerk23 June 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/11Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, C A Parsons and Company Limited, Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk17 June 1915
MS/525/5/5/15Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, 6 Windsor Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Robert Harrison]14 February 1919
MS/525/6/8/11Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, 8 Victoria Street, London, to [Dugald] Clerk5 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/26Telegram from Charles Algernon Parsons, Newcastle, to Dugald Clerk, Holborn13 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/20Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk25 July 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/4Mine equilibrium apparatus: description [by C A Parsons and Company Limited] 7 May 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/19Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk16 July 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/16Telegram from 'Turbo' [Charles Parsons], Newcastle-on-Tyne, to Dugald Clerk, Holborn, London14 July 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/5Mine equilibrium apparatus: engineering drawing [by C A Parsons and Company Limited]7 May 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/7Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Northumberland, to [Dugald] Clerk24 May [1915]
MS/525/6/6/3/6Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Northumberland, to [Dugald] Clerk16 May [1915]
MS/525/6/6/3/1Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Northumberland, to [Dugald] Clerk4 May 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/29Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Northumberland, to [Dugald] Clerk27 April [1915]
MS/525/6/6/3/25Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, C A Parsons and Company Limited, Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk13 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/28Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk15 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/22Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Northumberland, to [Dugald] Clerk6 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/40Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, 6 Windsor Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk18 December 1915
MS/525/6/8/12Telegram from Charles Algernon Parsons, Newcastle on Tyne, to Dugald Clerk, c/o Marklerk, Holborn, London9 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/32Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, C A Parsons and Company Limited, Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk23 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/39Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Ray, Kirkwelpington, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk 3 October 1915
MC/27/264Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, 9 Hans Mansions, S.W, to the [Royal Society]27 June 1912
IM/006476Sir James Alfred Ewing, Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and Sir Dugald Clerk 1910
NLB/17/690Copy letter from Theodore E James, the Honourable Charles Algernon Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society8 December 1898
NLB/16/596Copy letter of a notice from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [The Times]5 May 1898
NLB/20/594Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Algernon Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society28 May 1900
NLB/23/2/254Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to The Deputy Master, Royal Mint, E.6 November 1902
NLB/23/2/256Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to The Honorable Charles A Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society6 November 1902
NLB/25/714Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Algernon Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society12 December 1902
NLB/28/305Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Honorable Charles Algernon Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society16 February 1904
NLB/28/564Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Honorable Charles Algernon Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society30 March 1904
NLB/28/617Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Honorable Charles Algernon Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society18 April 1904
NLB/28/781Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir John G T Sinclair, Travellers' Club, Pall Mall, S.W.18 May 1904
NLB/35/90Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Charles Algernon Parsons, Heaton Works, Newcastle on Tyne[15 April 1907]
NLB/34/353Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honorable Charles Algernon Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society9 January 1907
NLB/36/768Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Robarts Lubbock & Company12 December 1907
NLB/37/509Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons31 March 1908
NLB/37/511Copy letter from the Royal Society to The Editor of "The Chemical News", 16 Newcastle Street, Farringdon Street, EC31 March 1908
NLB/44/290Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to the Honourable C [Charles] A [Algernon] Parsons FRS 8 June 1911
NLB/37/754Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Honorable C [Charles] A [Algernon] Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society8 May 1908
NLB/41/323Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honorable Charles Algernon Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society22 November 1909
NLB/40/341Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Honorable C [Charles] A [Algernon] Parsons FRS 26 May 1909
NLB/41/96Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honorable Charles Algernon Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society13 October 1909
NLB/70/196Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Honourable Sir Charles Parsons, KCB, FRS31 January 1927
MC/25/174Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, Holeyn Hall, Wylam-on-Tyne, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]20 February 1910
NLB/42/623Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Honourable C [Charles] A [Algernon] Parsons FRS 19 July 1910
MC/26/190Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, Holeyn Hall, Wylam-On-Tyne, to Mr Robert Harrison, [Royal Society]13 December 1911
NLB/47/279 Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Charles Parsons, KCB, FRS9 January 1913
NLB/45/29Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to the Honourable Sir C [Charles] A [Algernon] Parsons KCB11 December 1911
NLB/59/516Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, FRS11 October 1920
NLB/47/55Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to the Hon Sir Charles Parsons KCB, FRS20 November 1912
NLB/51/382Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to The Hon. Sir Charles Parsons KCB, FRS5 March 1915
NLB/50/346Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honorable Sir Charles Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society22 June 1914
NLB/52/318Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir Charles Parsons, FRS9 November 1915
NLB/54/214Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Sons6 March 1917
NLB/54/830Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]15 October 1917
NLB/53/235Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, K.C.B., FRS06 June 1916
NLB/58/815Copy letter from David Prain, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, FRS21 June 1920
NLB/55/154Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Hon. Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, K.C.B., FRS21 December 1917
NLB/59/872Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, FRS24 November 1920
NLB/56/190Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, FRS12 December 1918
NLB/53/307Copy letter from [Alfred Bray] Kempe, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to The Honourable Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, K.C.B., FRS06 July 1916
NLB/56/233Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles Parsons, FRS18 December 1918
NLB/56/195Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, FRS13 December 1918
NLB/59/810Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Charles] Algernon Parsons, FRS15 November 1920
MC/31/146Letter from from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, 9 Hans Mansions, S.W, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society4 July 1916
AP/79/11Unpublished paper, 'The ignition of gases at reduced pressure by continuous current break-sparks, and ionisation' by W M Thornton1916
NLB/57/726Copy letter from AH White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, FRS, KCB29 January 1920
NLB/55/525Copy letter from [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to The Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, K.C.B., FRS16 May 1918
MC/34/143Letter from [Charles] Algernon Parsons, 1 Upper Brook Street, W.1., to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]11 January 1919
NLB/64/127Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, FRS5 February 1923
NLB/64/189Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, FRS21 February 1923
NLB/63/605Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Honourable Sir Charles Parsons, K.C.B., FRS13 November 1922
NLB/64/820Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Hon. Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, FRS26 June 1923
NLB/64/788Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Hon. Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons FRS19 June 1923
NLB/65/394Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Honourable Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, KCB, FRS; also sent to Professor [Charles Glover] Barkla, Professor [Arthur Stanley] Eddington, Sir [William Henry] Bragg, Professor [Thomas Ralph] Merton, Professor [Jocelyn Field] Thorpe, Sir [Frederick William] Andrewes, Professor [Edwin Stephen] Goodrich, Sir [Thomas Henry] Holland and Sir [Frederick William] Keeble.25 October 1923
NLB/71/654Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Ernest Rutherford, O.M., President of the Royal Society26 September 1928
NLB/68/715Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Honourable Sir Charles Parsons, KCB, FRS21 October 1925
NLB/69/246Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, British Association12 February 1926
NLB/68/946Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Honourable Sir Charles Parsons, KCB, FRS4 December 1925
NLB/71/954Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Hon. Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, K.C.B., FRS17 December 1928
NLB/71/188Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Stanley Smith] Cook Esq.4 February 1928
NLB/71/808Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to to the Hon.Sir Chalres [Algernon] Parsons, O.M., K.C.B., FRS1 November 1928
NLB/72/463Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles Parsons, OM, KCB, FRS5 November 1929
NLB/73/210Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Editor of 'The Times'2 March 1931
NLB/73/196Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to A. D. C. Parsons Esq., SW119 February 1931
NLB/71/187Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, O.M., K.C.B., FRS26 January 1928
MS/525/6/10/7Copy letter, Charles Algernon Parsons, Holeyn Hall, Wylam-on-Tyne, to [Archibald] Barr14 March 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/31Copy letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Junior Carlton Club, Pall Mall, to [Dugald] Clerk18 August 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/3Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, C A Parsons and Company Limited, Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to [Dugald] Clerk7 May 1915
NLB/35/280Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Schuster, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physics and Chemistry Committee10 May 1907
RR/17/207Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'The conversion of diamond into coke in high vacuum by cathode rays' by Charles Algernon Parsons and Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton10 January 1908
RR/25/42Referee's report by Robert Abbott Hadfield, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Experiments on the artificial production of diamond' by Charles Algernon Parsonsnd [1918]
NLB/32/286Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dugald Clerk, 18 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C.13 February 1906
NLB/52New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1915-8 March 1916
PT/62/8/57Photograph, Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland by [Mary Parsons, Countess of Rosse?][1857]
PT/62/8/58Photograph, Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland by [Mary Parsons, Countess of Rosse?][1857]
AP/79/20Unpublished paper, 'The influence of reduced pressure upon the electrical ignition of gases' by W M Thornton1918
RR/25/41Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Experiments on the artificial production of diamond' by Charles Algernon Parsons[October 1918]
NLB/41/789Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Honorable Charles Algernon Parsons, Fellow of the Royal Society25 February 1910
MC/25/175Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, Holeyn Hall, Wylam-on-Tyne, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]16 July 1910
MC/26/189Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, Holeyn Hall, Wylam-On-Tyne, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]19 May 1911
MC/29/260Letter from [William Mandell] Thornton, University of Durham, Armstrong College, Newcastle-Upon Thyme, to the [Royal Society]24 October 1914
MC/30/144Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, Ray, Kirkwhekpington, Newcastle on Tyne, to The Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society24 July 1915
MC/30/145Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, Ray, Kirkwhekpington, Newcastle on Tyne, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, Royal Society6 November 1915
MC/30/146Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, 6 Windsor Terrace, Newcastle on Tyne, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]19 November 1915
MC/31/131Letter from [Hugh Frank] Newall, Madingley Rise, Cambridge, to Sir Alfred [Bray] Kempe, Treasurer, [Royal Society]12 April 1916
MC/31/141Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, 9 Hans Mansions, S.W, to the [Royal Society]23 March 1916
MC/31/144Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, 9 Hans Mansions, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]8 April 1916
MC/31/142Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, 9 Hans Mansions, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]24 March 1916
MC/31/143Letter from [Charles Algernon Parsons], 9 Hans Mansions, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]6 April 1916
NLB/53/309Copy letter from [Alfred Bray] Kempe, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to The Honorable Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, K.C.B., FRS06 July 1916
MC/31/145Letter from from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, 9 Hans Mansions, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]13 April 1916
NLB/53/96Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, K.C.B, FRS10 April 1916
MC/31/213Letter from [William Mandell] Thornton, University of Durham, Armstrong College, Newcastle Upon Tyne, to The Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society22 May 1916
MC/22/304Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Holeyn Hall, Wylam-on-Tyne, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison7 January 1907
MC/22/303Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Holeyn Hall, Wylam-on-Tyne, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison30 December 1906
MC/22/306Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Holeyn Hall, Wylam-on-Tyne, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison24 August 1907
MC/22/308Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Empire Hotel, Bath, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison9 December 1907
MC/22/307Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Empire Hotel, Bath, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison1 December 1907
MC/22/309Letter from Charles Algernon Parsons, Empire Hotel, Bath, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison15 December 1907
MC/33/131Letter from [Charles Algernon] Parsons, 1 Upper Brook Street, W.1., to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]14 December 1918
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
MC/36Volume 36 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1922
MC/36/71Letter from Charles [Algernon] Parsons, 1 Upper Brook Street, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society12 November 1922
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