Ronald Parfitt

Ronald Parfitt (3 June 1913 – 4 January 2011) was a British fencer and radiotherapist. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Ronald Parfitt

Personal information
Born	(1913-06-03)3 June 1913 Reading[1] or Shirley, Croydon
Died	4 January 2011(2011-01-04) (aged 97)[2] Lincolnshire
Sport
Sport	Fencing

Biography

Parfitt was born in a dentist family in Reading. He attended Guy's Hospital to become a dentist, but qualified as general doctor in 1939. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II in North Africa and Europe.^[1]

In 1946, he joined the radiation therapy department at Lambeth Hospital, where he worked among others with Theodore Stephanides.^[1] Parfitt won the United Kingdom national épée championships in 1948 and 1950.^[1] He invented first electric fencing box in England.^[1] In 1949 Parfitt married hospital nurse Margaret. His wife died in 2008; they had 2 daughters and 5 grandchildren.^[1]