Owen Percy Parsons LRIBA (22 July 1872 – 15 February 1944)[1] was an
Englisharchitect who designed both speculative housing for rent and larger private commissions.[2]
He was born in
Balsall Heath,
Birmingham to Councillor Thomas Parsons and Elizabeth Cox. He was articled to the
architect John George Bland[3] in 1893, and from 1895 began to practice. On Bland's death in 1898, he succeeded him in the practice[2] at 14 Temple Street, Birmingham.
He married Winnifred O'Connor (1884–1956) in 1910 and this marriage produced one son and one daughter.
During the Second World War he worked as an assessor under the War Damage Commission. His son Flight Lieutenant Anthony Leslie Parsons (1915–1991) was a prisoner of war at the time.
He died of a heart attack on 15 February 1944 at his home, Holmwood, Green Hill Road, Wylde Green, Birmingham.[5]
Selected list of works
Hindeliffe, Four Oaks, Birmingham
The Lawns, 16 Bracebridge Road, Four Oaks 1899
19 and 21 Salisbury Road, Moseley 1901
Overdale, Russell Road, Moseley 1901
47-65 Selly Park Road, Selly Park, Birmingham 1905