Lieutenant-General Sir Lawrence Worthington Parsons KCB (23 March 1850 – 20 August 1923) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 6th Division.

[6][7] He served in the Second Boer War and took part in the Battle of Colenso, the Battle of Spion Kop and the Relief of Ladysmith,[4] following which he was promoted to substantive colonel on 23 April 1900.

[6] After returning to the United Kingdom, he was in January 1901 appointed Colonel on the Staff Commanding Royal Artillery in the 2nd Army Corps on Salisbury Plain.

[6] In early 1903, he was appointed Inspector General of Artillery in India.

[4] He was recalled as General Officer Commanding 16th (Irish) Division in September 1914 at the start of the First World War[10] and retired again in 1916.