Desmond Parsons
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Hon. Desmond Edward Parsons FRAS was a British aristocrat, amateur sinologist, and aesthete, regarded as "one of the most magnetic men of his generation." He had a passionate friendship with James Lee
Desmond Parsons
Robert Byron and Desmond Parsons in China
William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse was an Irish peer and British Army officer. He was known as Lord Oxmantown until 1908.
Desmond Parsons
…was the one true love of Harold Acton and the unrequited love of Robert Byron. Desmond Edward Parsons was born on 13 December 1910, the third child of William Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse and Frances Lois Lister-Kaye (1882–1984), and the younger brother of Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse. He studied at Eton College where he had a…
Birr Castle, County Offaly