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Socialite. Known for. Founder of The Victorian Society. Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse (née Messel, previously Armstrong-Jones; 8 February 1902 – 3 July 1992), was an English socialite and one of the founders of The Victorian Society. She was the mother of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon and Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse.
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford. Anne, Viscountess Maynard (also known as Anne Parsons, Nancy Parsons, Nancy Maynard, and Mrs Horton (c. 1735 – 1814/1815) was a British courtesan and political mistress. She was de facto first lady, entertaining guests for her lover, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, the First Minister (Prime Minister).
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Birr Castle, County Offaly, seat of the Earls of Rosse. Lord Rosse was the eldest son of Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, and Anne (née Messel, mother of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon by an earlier marriage). Lord Rosse was educated at Eton College, Aiglon College, University of Grenoble and Christ Church, Oxford.
Mary Rosse. Mary Parsons, Countess of Rosse (née Field; 14 April 1813 – 1885), was an Anglo-Irish amateur astronomer, architect, furniture designer, and pioneering photographer. Often known simply as Mary Rosse, she was one of the early practitioners of making photographs from waxed-paper negatives. [1]
17 August 1764. Motto. PRO DEO ET REGE. ("For God and the King") Birr Castle, County Offaly, seat of the Earls of Rosse. The 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.
[2] [3] The two had previously encountered each other when Armstrong-Jones was the photographer at the wedding of Margaret's friends, Lady Anne Coke and The Hon. Colin Tennant, in April 1956. [4] In October 1959, Armstrong-Jones was invited to stay at Balmoral Castle. The public assumed he was there to photograph the royal family.
Birr Castle (Irish: Caisleán Bhiorra) [1] is a large castle in the town of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland.It is the home of the 7th Earl of Rosse and his family, and as the castle is generally not open to the public, [2] though the grounds and gardens of the demesne are publicly accessible, and include a science museum and a café, a reflecting telescope which was the largest in the world for ...