Sir William Parsons, 2nd Baronet (8 June 1661 – 17 March 1741) was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...

politician. Parsons was the son of Sir Laurence Parsons, 1st Baronet and Frances Savage, and succeeded to his father's

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in 1698. He was the

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for King's County in the

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between 1692 and 1713, and then again from 1715 until his death in 1741.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.114 (Retrieved 15 November 2022). He was succeeded in his title by his grandson, Laurence Parsons.

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