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William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse (14 June 1873 – 10 June 1918) was an Irish peer and British Army officer. He was known as Lord Oxmantown until 1908. Birr Castle, County Offaly
18 de abr. de 2024 · Upon the death of his father, William Parsons became the 5th Earl of Rosse and head of the Parsons family. He was promoted to Major in 1906 and resigned in 1908. In 1911 he was elected a Representative Peer.
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse KP FRS HonFRSE (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.
William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse (1873–1918) Rep. peer from 1911, taking the 3rd Lord Bellew's room; Lord Charlemont followed. Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse (1906–1979)
William Edward was the son of Lawrence Parsons, the 4 th Earl of Rosse and his wife the Hon Frances Cassandra Harvey-Hawke. He was educated at Eton and came up to Christ Church in 1891. He was extremely interested in agriculture and went to Denmark to study the latest methods.
William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse was an Irish peer and British Army officer. He was known as Lord Oxmantown until 1908.
William Parsons, Third Earl of Rosse, a skilled engineer, ingenious scientist, and dedicated astronomer, constructed a reflecting telescope larger than any previously made, the largest in the world for seven decades. With it he discovered the spiral nature of many nebulae.
