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Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse (née Messel, previously Armstrong-Jones; 8 February 1902 – 3 July 1992), was an English socialite and one of the founders of The Victorian Society. She was the mother of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon and Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse.
Biography. Birr Castle, County Offaly, seat of the Earls of Rosse. Lord Rosse was the eldest son of Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, and Anne (née Messel, mother of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon by an earlier marriage).
Lord Rosse married Frances Lois Lister-Kaye (1882–1984), daughter of Sir Cecil Lister-Kaye, 4th Baronet and Lady Beatrice Adeline Pelham-Clinton, on 19 October 1905. They had three children: Lawrence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse (b. 28 September 1906, d. c 1979), married Anne Messel, daughter of Lt.-Col. Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel, and had issue.
This is a revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s. He was a remarkable engineer, who built enormous telescopes in the cloudy middle of Ireland.
1 de nov. de 2015 · A revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s
York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800–1867) of Birr Castle, Ireland; succeeded to the earldom on his father's death in February 1841; His largest and most expensive telescope project, the construction of a Newtonian reflector with a 6 ft aperture and a 4 ton mirror, known as ‘the monster ...
Styled Lord Oxmantown from 1807 to 1841, Parsons was the eldest son of the 2nd Earl of Rosse, of Birr Castle near Parsonstown, King's County [co. Offaly] in Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was M.P. for King's County between 1821 and 1834 under his father's influence, whom he succeeded in ...
