Thom's Irish Who's Who/Parsons, The Hon. Sir Charles Algernon

PARSONS, The Hon. Sir Charles Algernon, K.C.B. (1911), C.B. (1904) F.R.S., M.A. (Cantab.); Hon. D.Sc. Oxford, Trin. Coll., Dublin, Durham, and Cambridge; Hon. D.Eng.. Liverpool; M.Inst. C.E.; J.P. for Northumberland (Sheriff, 1910): Chairman of C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Chairman and Joint Managing Director of the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co., Ltd.; Director of the Cambridge Electric Supply Co., Ltd., the Scarborough Electric Supply Co., Ltd., and the Parsons Foreign Patents Co., Ltd.; b. 1854; fourth son of 3rd Earl of Rosse; m. 1884, Katherine, dau. of late William Bethell, Rise Park, Yorks. Res.: Ray, Kirkwhilpington, Newcastle.