Arms: Gules, three Leopards’ Faces Argent. Crest: A Cubit-Arm proper grasping a Poleaxe erect Gules. Supporters: On either side an Ounce Argent spotted sable gorged with a Collar Gules charged with four Bezants.
Creation date
3 February 1806
Creation
Second
Created by
George III
Peerage
Peerage of Ireland
First holder
Laurence Parsons, 1st Viscount Oxmantown
Present holder
Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse
Heir apparent
Lawrence Parsons, Lord Oxmantown
Subsidiary titles
Baron Oxmantown
Status
Extant
Seat(s)
Birr Castle
Motto
PRO DEO ET PATRIA AD ASTRA ("For god and country to the stars")
Earldom of Rosse
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Arms: Gules, three Leopards’ Faces Or. Crest: A Halbert’s Head Or, imbrued proper. Supporters: On either side an Ounce Argent, palette, gorged with a Collar Gules.
Creation date
16 June 1718
Creation
First
Created by
George I
Peerage
Peerage of Ireland
First holder
Laurence Parsons, 2nd Viscount Rosse
Last holder
Richard Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse
Subsidiary titles
Viscount Rosse Baron Oxmantown
Status
Extinct
Extinction date
17 August 1764
Motto
PRO DEO ET REGE ("For God and the King")
Birr Castle, County Offaly, seat of the Earls of RosseThe 3rd Earl of Rosse
Earl of Rosse is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland, both times for the Parsons family. "Rosse" refers to New Ross in County Wexford.
EarlofRosse is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland, both times for the Parsons family. "Rosse" refers to New Ross in County...
construction of the 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker Telescope in California in 1917. The Rosse six-foot telescope was built by William Parsons, 3rd EarlofRosse on his...
Bhiorra) is a large castle in the town of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. It is the home of the 7th EarlofRosse and his family, and as the castle is generally...
Lord Rosse, Irish astronomer William Parsons, 5th EarlofRosse (1873–1918), Irish peer and British Army officer William Parsons, 7th EarlofRosse (born...
(1652–1700), English painter EarlofRosse, two titles in the Peerage of Ireland Rosse (crater), a lunar impact crater Rosse Bay, a bay of Qikiqtaaluk Region,...
youngest son of the famous astronomer William Parsons, 3rd EarlofRosse. (The family seat is Birr Castle, County Offaly, Ireland, and the town of Birr was...
constellation of Taurus. The common name comes from a drawing that somewhat resembled a crab with arms produced by William Parsons, 3rd EarlofRosse, in 1842...
The 3rd EarlofRosse. They had married on 14 April 1836, her 23rd birthday. Mary, Baroness Oxmantown, thus now became The Countess ofRosse. In the early...
the morphological type of Sab, located in the constellation of Pegasus. NGC 2 was discovered by Lawrence Parsons, 4th EarlofRosse on 20 August 1873." NGC...
"beautiful cluster of extremely compressed stars". William Parsons, 3rd EarlofRosse thought he could distinguish a dark lane through part of the cluster....
assistant of Lawrence Parsons, 4th EarlofRosse at Birr Castle in Birr, Ireland, and remained in that position until the death of the Earl in 1908. He...
Parsons, 3rd EarlofRosse drew the Crab Nebula in 1848 and noticed its similarity to the animal; the Crab Pulsar lies at the centre of the nebula. The...
family, (the family bears the title: 'EarlofRosse') and is best known for its 19th-century telescope, the Leviathan of Parsonstown. Sculpture in the Parklands...
The 1st EarlofRosse, on 24 June. The Grand Lodge has regular Masonic jurisdiction over 13 Provincial Grand Lodges covering all the Freemasons of the island...
credit for the original to Anglo-Irish astronomer William Parsons, 3rd EarlofRosse, whose work Flammarion reproduced. Whitney also theorizes that the swirls...
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