| Authorised form of name | Parsons; Robert Mann (1829 - 1897) |
| Dates | 1829 - 1897 |
| Date of birth | 29 September 1829 |
| Place of death | Greenwich |
| Date of death | 20 May 1897 |
| Activity | Career:
Joined the Royal Engineers; served in Chatham (1847-1849), Woolwich (1849-1850) and Nova Scotia (1850-1854); served with the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (1854-1858); served in British Columbia (1858-1863); Captain (1862); Rejoined the Ordnance Survey (1866-1879); Major (1872); Lieutenant Colonel (1873); Colonel (1878); retired (1879)
Memberships:
FRAS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/06/1870 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/104502393 |
| Code | NA6422 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/4/379 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General Robert Mann Parsons | 5 May 1890 |
| NLB/15/6 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 4 June 1897 |
| EC/1870/11 | Parsons, Robert Mann: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/9/90 | Letter from R M [Robert Mann] Parsons, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 6 June 1870 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |