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Lord Rosse sat from 1800 to 1807 as one of the original Irish representative peer in the British House of Lords. On his death in 1807 the viscountcy became extinct while he was succeeded in the barony and earldom according to the special remainders by his aforementioned nephew, the 5th Baronet.
Lord Rosse was educated at Eton College, Aiglon College, University of Grenoble and Christ Church, Oxford. He was an officer in the Irish Guards from 1955–57 and worked for the United Nations from 1963–80. He succeeded his father in 1979. He lives at Birr Castle, County Offaly.
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 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.
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The devastation about which Lord Rosse had warned for several years came to Ireland in 1845 with the outbreak of the great famine. With Mary, countess of Rosse, he now worked to ease the hardship round Birr. He published his thoughts, which were very critical, on the behaviour of the government in London.
25 de abr. de 2015 · In March and April 1845 William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, together with his collaborators, made the greatest scientific discovery in the history of Ireland. He discerned the spiral structure...
3 de ago. de 2022 · The primary supporting evidence for the nebular hypothesis in the mid-nineteenth century was the claimed unresolvability of the nebulae. The ‘Leviathan of Parsonstown’, which was for over 75 years the world’s largest telescope, was built in Ireland by William Parsons (Lord Rosse) to test this claim.
