Edward Louis Parnell (21 June 1875 – 2 February 1941) was a British sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

[2] Pre-1908, Parnell was a commissioned officer in the British Army's 2nd (South) Middlesex Volunteer Reserve Corps, a unit with a high reputation for rifle sports marksmanship in British Army military circles.

[3] Parnell was mobilised on 4 August 1914 on the outbreak of World War I and went out to the Western Front as a Captain with the 1st Kensingtons on 4 November 1914.

[4] In October 1917, his only child, Leslie Parnell, was killed during the Battle of Passchendaele as a subaltern with the 2nd Battalion of the 4th East Lancashire Regiment (on attachment from his father's corps) aged 20.

His grave is located at St. Mary's Church, Long Ditton, in the county of Surrey, England.