Deaths

NICHOLAS MARK PARSONS (D81) 10th October 1962 – 16th January 2017.  Nick was the second son of the distinguished diplomat, Sir Richard Parsons and his wife Jennifer. Born in 1962, he came to Ampleforth when his father was ambassador in Budapest. He was an able boy, who did well and made friends among his contemporaries. Losing his mother, who died when his father was ambassador in Madrid and he was still in the school, was devastating for him as for his two brothers Julian (D80) and Tim (D84).  In spite of quite a febrile temperament, he found enough resilience to hold his own. His interests were mainly intellectual and he took A Levels at good grades. Leaving Ampleforth in 1981, he was at New College Oxford, a Scholar, reading History from 1982 to 1985. He became an expert in bonds and was in Hong Kong and in Thailand, working as a financial journalist from the mid-1980s until 1999 and again for some years until 2012. Often it seems he lived through doubt and uncertainty. Nick loved Bob Dylan and music.  After his return to London in 2012, Nick was increasingly unwell, and was helped by friends.  He was anointed with the Sacrament of the Sick on 13th January 2017 in St George’s Hospital in Tooting and died there on 16th January 2017.  His Requiem funeral Mass in St Thomas Catholic Church in Fulham was attended by about ten of his Ampleforth contemporaries and other friends and family, with much beautiful singing.

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Rest in eternal peace.