Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse
Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse KP (born November 17, 1840 at Birr Castle, Parsonstown , County Offaly , † August 29, 1908 , according to other information August 30, 1908 ) was an Irish nobleman and astronomer . He was the son of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse and inherited the title of Earl of Rosse on his death in 1867 .
From 1868 until his death, he was one of the elected Representative Peers of the Irish nobles in the House of Lords . Between 1892 and 1908 he continued to serve as Lord Lieutenant of King's County . His father had already worked in both positions.
Parsons was the 18th rector of Dublin University from 1885 to 1908 .
In 1880 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
In 1870 he married Frances Cassandra Hawke, daughter of Edward Harvey-Hawke, 4th Baron Hawke , on September 1, 1870, with whom he had three children. On his death the title passed to the eldest son William .
Web links
- Lawrence Pearsons with Wolfgang Steinicke
- Laurence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Obituary Notices: Fellows: Lawrence Parsons, fourth Earl of Rosse. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 69 (1909), pp. 250-253 ( digitized ).
- ^ I. Elliott: Parsons, Laurence. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
- ↑ The Earl of Rosse [Obituary]. In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 20 (1908), No. 122, p. 272 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Laurence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
- ↑ Otto Boeddicker: Obituary: The Earl of Rosse. In: The Observatory, Vol. 31 (1908), pp. 374-376 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Member entry of Laurence Parsons Earl of Rosse at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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William Parsons |
Earl of Rosse 1867-1908 |
William Parsons |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Parsons, Lawrence, 4th Earl of Rosse |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Parsons, Lawrence |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish nobleman and astronomer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1840 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Birr (Ireland) , County Offaly |
DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1908 or August 30, 1908 |