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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 ...
- 28 September 1906
- Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse, Hon. Martin Parsons
- 5 July 1979 (aged 72)
- William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse, Frances Lois Lister-Kaye
Anne married Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, on 19 September 1935. Rosse had extensive estates in Ireland and was nicknamed "The Adonis of the Peerage". They had two sons and five grandchildren: Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse (born 21 October 1936), who married Alison Cooke-Hurle on 15 October 1966
- Socialite
- Founder of The Victorian Society
Lawrence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse (1906–1979) William Clere Leonard Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse (born 1936) The heir apparent is the present holder's son, Lawrence Patrick Parsons, Lord Oxmantown (born 1969).
- Lawrence Parsons, Lord Oxmantown
- Laurence Parsons, 1st Viscount Oxmantown
- Baron Oxmantown
- Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse
17 de jun. de 2015 · William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse, was born June 17, 1800. Rosse was a wealthy Irish landowner who longed to be an astronomer, and in 1844 he erected at Birr Castle, his estate in Parsonstown, what was then the world’s largest reflecting telescope, with a... Scientist of the Day - William Parsons. June 17, 2015.
of Rosse, beginning in 1620. It was at this time also that the civic areas around the castle were annexed to it, when it subsequently became known as Parsonstown (Fig. 9.1). From the seventeenth century onwards the Gaelic Irish were reduced to the status of tenants and landless peasants on their ancestral lands. Members of the O’Carroll
25 de jun. de 2022 · William Parsons, also known as the 3rd Earl of Rosse, was an English astronomer, naturalist, and engineer who made significant contributions to the field of astronomy through his telescope discoveries. Parsons built his own telescope, the “Leviathan of Parsonstown,” which was the largest known telescope of its time with an aperture of 1.8m.
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.
