William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse (14 June 1873 – 10 June 1918) was an Irish peer and British Army officer. He was known as Lord Oxmantown until 1908.
He returned to military service in the First World War, serving as a Major with the Irish Guards. He was Second-in-Command of his Battalion at Festubert on 10 May 1915 when he was very severely wounded in the head by a piece of shell. He was returned home to Birr Castle, County Offaly, where he died on 10 June 1918 at the age of 44. He is buried in the family vault at the Birr Old Graveyard.[3]
In February 1919 it was reported that Estate Duties of 13% were levied on Lord Rosse’s Estate, meaning that the total value exceeded £250,000. [4]
Marriage and children
Lord Rosse married Frances Lois Lister-Kaye (1882–1984), daughter of Sir Cecil Lister-Kaye, 4th Baronet and Lady Beatrice Adeline Pelham-Clinton, on 19 October 1905.
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