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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.
Lord Rosse married Lady Jane, daughter of Edward King, 1st Earl of Kingston and Jane Caulfield, in 1772. He died in April 1807, aged 57, when the viscountcy became extinct; he was succeeded in the barony and earldom according to the special remainder by his nephew, Lawrence. Lady Rosse died in January 1838 and the estates were inherited by ...
He was born at Birr Castle, Parsonstown, King's County, Ireland, the son and heir of the astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse who built the "Leviathan of Parsonstown" telescope, largest of its day, and his wife, the Countess of Rosse (née Mary Field), an amateur astronomer and pioneering photographer.
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
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.
18 de may. de 2018 · Parsons, William, English composer who flourished in the mid 16 th century. He was active at Wells Cathedral, where he served as vicar-choral in 1555. Parsons contributed 81 of the 141 settings found in John Day ’s The Whole Psalmes in Foure Parts (1563). He also wrote anthems, services, and motets, but few have survived in full.
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.
