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Letters and papers of the 5th Earl concerning his shares
IE BCA ROSSE/M/36 · File · [1912-1914]
Part of The Rosse Papers

1912-14 Letters and papers of the 5th Earl concerning his shares in the San Sebastian Development Syndicate and the International Nitrogen and Power Company Ltd; part of the operations of the latter involved a process for cutting peat, and there are a
number of letters to the 5th Earl and [Sir Charles Parsons?] on this subject.

 Parsons, William, 5th Earl of Rosse
Letters and papers of the 4th Earl reflecting his membership of learned bodies
IE BCA ROSSE/M/7 · File · 1870-1899
Part of The Rosse Papers

Letters and papers of the 4th Earl reflecting his membership of learned bodies – the Royal Irish Academy (member 1870; president 1896), the Royal Institute, the Royal Society, the Institute of Naval Architects, etc; the correspondents include W. Burne Jones and [the 1st Marquess of] Dufferin and Ava.

 Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Letters and papers of the 4th Earl concerning a bill to prevent rabies
IE BCA ROSSE/M/22 · File · 1894
Part of The Rosse Papers

Original bundle of letters and papers of the 4th Earl concerning a bill to prevent rabies by muzzling dogs, including numerous answers to a circular which, clearly, he had addressed to Poor Law Unions all over Ireland seeking information about the incidence of rabies within their respective localities. [Not in chronological order.]

 Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Letters and papers of the 4th Earl about Parsonstown/Birr
IE BCA ROSSE/M/5 · File · 1868-1910
Part of The Rosse Papers

Letters and papers of the 4th Earl about Parsonstown/Birr: the Castle – his youthful recollections of it, extensions to it 1867-72 [see also M/25], a magazine portrait of his way of life there, 1898, and magazine obituaries of him, 1908; an incident which took place on the road between Banagher and Parsonstown and in which the 4th Earl and his party were stopped and temporarily put in gaol by a drunken R.I.C. man, 1868; the Parsonstown Barracks, 1869, 1899 and N.D.; the Parsonstown Town Commission and Commissioners, 1870 and 1885; admissions to the demesne of privileged locals, 1876-1910; and one of the bridges in the Birr Castle demesne, and the Rivers Brosna and Camcor, 1880 and 1896. The correspondents include Gladstone, W.E. Forster and Lords Strathnairn and Roberts. The sub-section also includes a small account book recording local subscriptions to the Parsonstown Defence Association, the Property Defence Association, the legal fund of the Irish Land Committee, and the Field and Rossmore Testimonials, c.1882.

 Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse
Letters and papers of or about junior branches of the Parsons family
IE BCA ROSSE/M/13 · File · 1878-1924
Part of The Rosse Papers

Box containing six miscellaneous letters and papers of or about junior branches of the Parsons family, [all of them probably the children of the Hon. Laurence Parsons, youngest brother of the 3rd Earl – see J/29], including an epitome of the settlement made on the marriage of one of the Hon. Laurence Parsons’s daughters, 1878; together with numerous case papers and court orders concerning the lunacy of the Hon. Laurence Parson’s eldest son, Capt. Laurence Hardress Hector Parsons (d. 1924), 1897-1924.

 Parsons, Laurence, 4th Earl of Rosse