Leonard Parsons

Sir Leonard Gregory Parsons MRCS FRCP FRCOG FRS (25 November 1879 - 17 December 1950) was a British Paediatrician.[1]

Parsons studied at Mason College and the University of Birmingham from 1896 to 1903. He graduated with a University of London external degree in medicine in 1903.[2][3][4]

He was Professor of Paediatrics at Birmingham University and dean of University of Birmingham Medical School. In 1932 he was the first to use synthetic Vitamin C to treat scurvy in children.[5][6][7][8]

Parsons was awarded the Royal College of Physicians’s Moxon Medal in 1942 and delivered their Harveian Oration in 1950. He received a knighthood in 1946. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1948.[9]

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