Abstract
On Thursday, 5 October, Sir Robert Robinson, O. M. , President of the Royal Society, invited the Dean of Westminster to dedicate a Memorial Window, designed by Sir Ninian Comper, to commemorate Sir Charles Parsons, O.M. , F. R. S. , the great scientist who gave us the steam turbine which has led to the turbo generators of present day electric power stations and the turbines which drive the biggest ships of the Royal Navy and the Mercantile Marine. Sir Charles Parsons was born in 1854 and after his death in 1931 the Royal Society set up a committee to arrange an appropriate memorial of which the Window in Westminster Abbey is one outcome. Another is the Parsons Memorial Lecture delivered annually. A third was the contribution of £10,000 towards the Parsons Memorial Library at London House, Bloomsbury, which was opened by H.M. Queen Mary on 3 December 1937. Sir Frank Smith, Chairman of the Royal Society Committee and himself the first Parsons Memorial Lecturer, delivered the Memorial Oration at the Abbey.
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