John Denham Parsons (1861 – 14 September 1936)"New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors". Retrieved October 26, 2019. was an English writer and Shakespeare authorship theorist.
Biography
Parsons was a proponent of the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship.Friedman, William F; Friedman, Elizabeth S. (1957). The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined: An Analysis of Cryptographic Systems Used as Evidence that Some Author Other Than William Shakespeare Wrote the Plays Commonly Attributed to Him. Cambridge University Press. pp. 178-180. Between 1918 and 1935 he published many works on this topic, including articles in Baconiana and letters in the correspondence columns of Notes and Queries and The Times Literary Supplement. He attempted pamphlet controversy with Sir Sidney Lee and authorities at the British Museum over the Shakespeare authorship question.
Parsons' book The Non-Christian Cross (1896) argued that the Christian cross symbol is not Christian in origin.Notes and Queries. Volume 9 (June, 1896). p. 280
He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research. Parsons authored a 561-page book The Nature and Purpose of the Universe on philosophy and psychical research, published in 1906.Lindsay, James. (1908). Reviewed Work: The Nature and Purpose of the Universe by John Denham Parsons. International Journal of Ethics 18 (2): 260-262.
Selected publications
Our Sun-God: Or Christianity Before Christ, 1895 The Non-Christian Cross: An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion, 1896 The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, 1906 The Great Taboo in English Literary Circles, 1919 Ben Johnson and Sir Sidney Lee, 1920 Boycotted Shakespeare Facts: Being a Preliminary Report Upon the Admissible, 1920 William Shakespeare, 1920 Bacon: Being an account of seven years of refusal by the accepted authorities to supply a reasoned judgement concerning certain new evidence affecting.. the identity of the poet Shakespeare, 1922 The British Museum and Shakespeare's identity, 1924 Did "Shake-speare" signal?
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