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John Denham Parsons (1861 – 14 September 1936) was an English writer and Shakespeare authorship theorist.

Biography

Parsons was a proponent of the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship. 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.

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.

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?

References

1. "New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors". Retrieved October 26, 2019.
2. ^ 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. ISBN 978-0-521-05040-1
3. Notes and Queries. Volume 9 (June, 1896). p. 280
4. Lindsay, James. (1908). Reviewed Work: The Nature and Purpose of the Universe by John Denham Parsons. International Journal of Ethics 18 (2): 260-262.

External links

• Works by John Denham Parsons at Project Gutenberg
• The Non-Christian Cross:An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about John Denham Parsons at the Internet Archive

v t e Shakespeare authorship question
A series on alternative authorship theories for the works of William Shakespeare
Overview	History of the Shakespeare authorship question Shakespeare attribution studies Is Shakespeare Dead? Declaration of Reasonable Doubt
Theories	Baconian Crollalanza Derbyite Florio Lanier Marlovian Nevillean Oxfordian Prince Tudor Shaykh Zubayr
Candidates	List of Shakespeare authorship candidates Francis Bacon Emilia Lanier Christopher Marlowe Henry Neville William Stanley Edward de Vere
Proponents	Joseph Adler Mark Anderson Babette Babich Delia Bacon Ros Barber Charles Wisner Barrell Charles Beauclerk Alden Brooks Charles Champlin Jeffery Donaldson Ignatius L. Donnelly Bert Fields George Greenwood Joseph C. Hart Calvin Hoffman Derek Jacobi Richard Kennedy Abel Lefranc J. Thomas Looney Sandra Day O'Connor Charlton Ogburn Charlton Greenwood Ogburn John Orloff Orville Ward Owen John Denham Parsons Prince Philip Michael Rubbo William Rubinstein Mark Rylance Henry Seymour Joseph Sobran John Paul Stevens Roger Stritmatter Mark Twain Bernard Mordaunt Ward Alexander Waugh Walt Whitman James Wilde Robin Williams (writer)

• 1861 births
• 1936 deaths
• Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship
• English male non-fiction writers
• British parapsychologists
• Shakespeare authorship theorists
• People from South Stoneham