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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.
Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, KBE (28 September 1906 – 5 July 1979) was an Anglo-Irish peer. Early life and education [ edit ] Parsons was the son of William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse , whom he succeeded in 1918, and Frances Lois Lister-Kaye, daughter of Sir Cecil Edmund Lister-Kaye, 4th Bt. and Lady Beatrice Adeline Pelham-Clinton.
Earl of Rosse (1873–⚔1918), ⚭ 1905 Frances Lois Lister-Kaye, Tochter des Sir Cecil Edmund Lister-Kaye, 4. Baronet; Hon. Geoffrey Lawrence Parsons (1874–1956), Lieutenant-General der British Army , ⚭ 1911 Margaret Betty Gladstone († 1952), Tochter des Sir John Evelyn Gladstone, 4.
Early life. An Irish peer, he was born at Twickenham, Middlesex, the son of Richard Parsons, 1st Viscount Rosse ( c. 1657 -1703) and Elizabeth Hamilton, niece of Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough. His family had settled at New Ross, County Wexford at the beginning of the 17th century.
Occupation. Irish peer. Spouse. Alice Lloyd. Children. five. Parent (s) Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet and Mary Clere. Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse (21 May 1758 – 24 February 1841), known as Sir Lawrence Parsons, Bt, from 1791 to 1807, was an Irish peer.
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
Earl of Rosse, 3. Baron Oxmantown und 6. Baronet, of Birr Castle. Im Februar 1845 wurde er als irischer Representative Peer auf Lebenszeit ins britische House of Lords gewählt. Von 1848 bis 1854 war er Präsident der Royal Society, ab 1862 Kanzler der Universität Dublin. 1845 wurde er zum Ehrenmitglied ( Honorary Fellow) der Royal Society of ...
