Roger Parsons' Website "Back Room"

This website is an affectionate tribute to the County of Lincolnshire and its many famous people, by birth or adoption. It was conceived and designed by Steve Gray. The following notes offer links to subjects of personal interest or significance. This page is unlinked and you are not likely to come across it unless you are looking for it - so Welcome!

~ Studies and Career &c. ~

Roger Parsons: Raised in Trinidad and in Pembrokeshire. Studied Zoology and Education. During vacations worked for the Field Studies Council, and later as a Course Director and Research Assistant with the Oil Pollution Research Unit. At this time did fieldwork in Iceland and grew a beard! Postgraduate work later on in Agriculture.

1970s, taught Biology in Cambridgeshire, then served with VSO as an agriculture volunteer in Vanuatu. Then worked as VSO's UK Agricultural Officer. Early 1980s, worked for ActionAid The Gambia as Senior Agricultural Officer and Acting Director, as a member of the UK national fundraising team, and served on short ActionAid contracts in Ethiopia and Malawi.

~ A proud resident of fenland Lincolnshire ~

Now keep honeybees and an organic cottage garden in the vast skyscape of rural Lincolnshire near the villages of Coningsby and Tattershall, close to the River Witham. Overhead fly aircraft of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and Typhoons.

From 1989 to 1995 worked as Director with the Lincoln Cathedral Preservation Council and went on to work for the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust as Marketing Manager up to 2000.

A highlight of this period was the successful 1999 campaign against proposed floodlighting of the Humber Bridge.

Now teaching science and also working as a freelance consultant. I will be pleased to hear from organisations wishing help with publicity work, project management or funding.

You can email me at

That, and the rest of this website, should be more than enough information for identification if our paths have crossed before! News from long lost family or friends is always welcome! Get in touch!

Roger

• So write, before I die, ''E liked it all!'
   
• Links to family member information, ancestral, recent or present day, can be found on:
   
  • Bloody Slab [under revision]
  • A Night on the Meije [under revision]
  • John Streetly Climbing Bloody Slab
  • Arthur Streetly on the Meije
  • Frederick James Fairland Streetly
  • Richard Jefferies Life & Work

"I'm going home"

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Famous People | George Boole | Cosmic events Sir John Franklin | John Harrison | R.W. Frow | Jobs Beekeeping | Lincoln Cathedral | Werewolves | Links

Roger Parsons'  "Lincolnshire World"

If you have any useful information to add (hints, tips, links, etc.) to these pages please do let me know.

Thank you for visiting my web site.

Roger Parsons