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Rosse, Third Earl of (William Parsons) (1800–1867) William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse, was an Irish astronomer who, in 1845, built by far the largest telescope in the world at the time, a 72-inch (1.8-meter) reflector, in the grounds of Birr Castle, Parsonstown.
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (17 June 1800 – 31 October 1867), was an Irish astronomer, naturalist, and engineer. He was president of the Royal Society (UK), the most important association of naturalists in the world in the nineteenth century. He built several giant telescopes.
The eldest, Lawrence Parsons, 4th earl of Rosse, and Baron Oxmantown, born on the 17th of November 1840, succeeded to the title on his father’s death, and made many investigations on the heavenly bodies, particularly on the radiation of the moon and related physical questions; the youngest, the Hon. Charles Algernon Parsons, born on the 13th of June 1854, is famous for his commercial ...
17 de ago. de 2015 · Based on: William Parsons, 3 rd Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Edited by Mollan Charles (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2014). Pp. xxii + 368. £70. ISBN 9780719091445
Catherine Fenton. Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Bellamont, PC (Ire) ( c. 1570 – 1650), was known as a "land-hunter" expropriating land from owners whose titles were deemed defective. He also served as Surveyor General of Ireland and was an undertaker in several plantations. He governed Ireland as joint Lord Justice of Ireland from ...
Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet. Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet of Birr Castle (6 May 1731 – 1 May 1791) was an Irish politician and baronet. He was the son of Sir Laurence Parsons, 3rd Baronet and Mary Sprigge. From 1757 until his death in 1797, Parsons served as member of parliament (MP) in the Irish House of Commons for King's County.
Parsons, Joyce, and Jeanne Jensen. An every-name index of Lancashire pedigrees by Captaine Booth of Stopford, Cheshire, collected in 1681 by Roberti Parker, Knt.
