3-052-413 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Movers and seconders of the Address in the two Houses of Parliament: the Earl of Rosse, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Jabez Hughes. 'Sir Lawrence Parsons, Bart., Baron Oxmantown in the peerage of Ireland, is eldest son of the late Earl, third of that title, who died in 1867, and who was renowned for his contributions to astronomical science, especially for the great telescope he constructed, at a cost of £20,000, in his demesne of Parsonstown, near Dublin...The present Earl of Rosse is, like his father, one of the elected Representative Peers for Ireland. He was born in November, 1840, and is married to the daughter of the fourth Lord Hawke'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.