Lieutenant-General Sir Lawrence Worthington Parsons KCB (23 March 1850 – 20 August 1923) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 6th Division.^[2]

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Sir Lawrence Parsons
Birth name	Lawrence Worthington Parsons
Born	23 March 1850[1] Parsonstown, King's County, Ireland
Died	20 August 1923(1923-08-20) (aged 73) Hatherton, Reigate, Surrey
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1870–1909 1914–1916
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands held	8th Division 6th Division 16th (Irish) Division
Battles/wars	Second Boer War First World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

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Parsons was brought up in Parsonstown in King's County,^[3] the only son of Lawrence Parsons.^[2] He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a lieutenant on 23 July 1870,^[4] then promoted to captain on 16 September 1880, to major on 1 July 1886, and to lieutenant-colonel on 1 October 1896.^[5] He served in the Second Boer War and took part in the Battle of Colenso, the Battle of Spion Kop and the Relief of Ladysmith,^[4] following which he was promoted to substantive colonel on 23 April 1900. After returning to the United Kingdom, he was in January 1901 appointed Colonel on the Staff Commanding Royal Artillery in the 2nd Army Corps on Salisbury Plain.^[5] In early 1903, he was appointed Inspector General of Artillery in India.^[6] He was then appointed General Officer Commanding 8th Division in Ireland in 1906^[7] and General Officer Commanding 6th Division also in Ireland in 1907 before retiring in 1909.^[4] He was recalled as General Officer Commanding 16th (Irish) Division in 1914 at the start of the First World War and retired again in 1916.^[4]

In 1880, he married Florence Anna Graves, daughter of Dr. Robert Graves of Cloghan Castle, and had one daughter.^[2]