Person    | Male  Born 1800  Died 1867

Earl of Rosse, William Parsons

Categories: Science

Countries: Ireland

Amateur astronomer. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951.

Born York.

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Earl of Rosse, William Parsons

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