Early Life 1884-1898
Karl Parsons was born in Peckham in south London, on 23 January 1884, the 12th and youngest child of Arthur William Parsons (1838–1901), a foreign language translator, and Emma Matilda Parsons, née Bergemann (1837–1914). He was christened with the names Charles Bergemann, though the family always called him Karl, the name he was to use in later life.
From 1893 to 1898 he attended Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Boys School at New Cross in south London.
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