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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 ...
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
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.
4 de abr. de 2024 · M33. William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse (born June 17, 1800, York, England—died October 31, 1867, Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland) was an Irish astronomer and builder of the largest reflecting telescope, the “ Leviathan ,” of the 19th century. In 1821 Parsons was elected to the House of Commons. He resigned his seat in 1834 but in 1841 ...
York, England, 17 June 1800; d. Monkstown, Ireland, 31 October 1867) astronomy. William Parsons was the eldest son of Lawrence Parsons, second Earl of Rosse, and a descendant of the Sir William Parsons who had gone to Ireland in the sixteenth century. Prior to the death of his father, in 1841, he held the title Lord Oxmantown, under which style ...
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 ...
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 telescope’ or ‘Leviathan of Parsonstown’, was completed in 1844 at a cost of £12,000. Also ...
