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
Isaac Parsons (Virginia politician) Solomon Jones, and Elias Poston. Parsons died on August 25, 1796; according to tradition, he died from drowning in the South Branch Potomac River. Parsons was married on April 23, 1772, to Mary E. Ellender Gregg. Mary E. Ellender Gregg was born on February 27, 1756. Parsons and his wife had two sons: James Gregg Parsons (1773–1847), married to Mary Catherine Casey in 1795, and David Parsons (born 1775), married to Catherine Miller. Isaac Parsons (Virginia politician) Isaac Parsons (January 27, 1752 – August 25, 1796) was an American planter, politician, and militia officer in the U.S. state of Virginia