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Rosse retired from active public life after 1833 and wrote An Argument to Prove the Truth of Christian Religion, and parts of a biography of his mentor Henry Flood.
The third Baronet was created Viscount Rosse in the Peerage of Ireland in 1681, and the second Viscount was created Earl of Rosse in the Peerage of Ireland in 1718; these titles of the first creation became extinct on the death of the second Earl in 1764.
Parsons, Sir Lawrence, 2nd Earl of Rosse, was born 21st May 1758. [His ancestor, Sir William Parsons, settled in Ireland in Elizabeth's reign, was Commissioner of Plantations, and obtained large grants of land from the Crown. He was for some time Lord-Justice in conjunction with Sir John Borlace, but was removed in 1643.]
1758-1841 [2nd Earl of Rosse; son of namesake, q.v.]; ed. TCD; MP for Dublin University, 1782; engaged in parliamentary exchange with Henry Grattan which nearly came to a duel, ; disclaimed party politics but opposed Act of Union; inherited title, 1807). his figure is included in engraving of the Irish House of Commons of 1790, now preserved in ...
He succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father's half-brother Lawrence-Harman, first earl of Rosse (of the second creation), on 20 April 1807. He was appointed joint postmaster-general for Ireland in 1809, and in the same year was elected a representative peer of Ireland.
He died on the 20th of April 1807, and was succeeded by his nephew Lawrence. Lawrence Parsons, 2nd earl of Rosse (1758-1841), the eldest son of Sir William Parsons, bart. (d. 1791), of Birr Castle, was born on the 21st of May 1758.
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The 2nd Earl built the worlds first suspension bridge over the river Camcor in 1826. The third Earl William Parsons is famous for his interest in Science and Astronomy . He constructed and built a giant telescope on the estate.
