Nicholas Parsons show whose audience peaked at over 21 million viewers (a record for an ITV game show). Parsons was born at 1 Castlegate, Grantham, Lincolnshire; he was the middle child of the family, having an older brother and a younger sister. His father was a general practitioner whose patients included the family of Margaret Thatcher; claims that he delivered her are unproven. His mother, born in Bristol to a founder of local company W.B. Maggs & Co, was training as a nurse when she met Parsons' father at University College Hospital, London. Parsons was born left-handed but was made to write
Nicholas Parsons entitled "The Straight Man: My Life in Comedy", which was published in 1984, and he produced a book of memoirs in 2010 called "Nicholas Parsons: With Just a Touch of Hesitation, Repetition and Deviation". He appears annually at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe presenting his comedy chat show "The Happy Hour" at the Cabaret Bar at the Pleasance, and has done so since 2001. Parsons is the oldest intermittent broadcaster on BBC Radio (4). Sir David Attenborough is the next oldest intermittent broadcaster on BBC TV and radio. From 1988 to 1991, Parsons served as Rector of the University of St