Sir Laurence Parsons, 3rd Baronet (1708 – 24 October 1756) 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 State rel ...
politician.
Parsons was the son of William Parsons and Martha Pigott, and the grandson of
Sir William Parsons, 2nd Baronet. His father predeceased his grandfather, and Parsons succeeded to his grandfather's
baronetcy
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on 17 March 1741.
Between 1741 and his death, Parsons sat in the
Irish House of Commons
The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until the end of 1800. The upper house was the Irish House of Lords, House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, ...
as the
Member of Parliament for
King's County.
[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 married, firstly, Mary Sprigge, daughter of William Sprigge, on 5 September 1730. He married, secondly, Anne Harman, daughter of Wentworth Harman and Frances Sheppard, on 16 February 1742. His son from his first marriage,
William Parsons succeeded to his title in 1756, while a son from his second marriage,
Laurence Parsons, was elevated to the peerage as
Earl of Rosse in 1806.
References
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1708 births
1756 deaths
18th-century Anglo-Irish people
Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland
Irish MPs 1727–1760
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for King's County constituencies