Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain F. C. Parsons, British Red Cross Society and Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles

British War and Victory Medals (F. G. Parsons, B.R.C.& St. J.J.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed; Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Capt. F. C. Parsons, S.P. Mtd. Rfls.’, complete with brooch bar, mounted for wear, extremely fine (4) £240-280

Francis Cotton Parsons was born on 29 November 1867, the second son of William Baldock Parsons of Aylmer Hall, King’s Lynn, Norfolk. Educated at Waterbeach, Cambridge and Amersham Hall School, Reading and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was appointed to the Indian Civil Service in 1886. Parsons subsequently served in Madras as Assistant Collector and Magistrate, in 1894 as Special Settlement Officer, in 1897 as Head Assistant Collector and Magistrate, the following year as Special Settlement Officer in Malabar, in 1901 Head Assistant Collector in South Canara, in 1902 Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate, in 1904 Collector and Magistrate, becoming a District and Sessions Judge during 1907-08. He was later an Assistant Magistrate and Assistant to the Governor of Vizagapatam and retired in August 1914. He had, meanwhile, in December 1905, been appointed a Captain in the Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles. With the outbreak of war, Parsons served with the British Red Cross Society and the Serbian Relief Fund. He died at Lausanne on 23 December 1924. Sold with some copied research.