Brendan Parsons 7th Earl of Rosse Biography

William Clere Leonard Brendan Parsons 7th Earl of Rosse (known as Brendan; born on 21 October 1936) is an Irish peer. He was the eldest son of Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons 6th Earl of Rosse and Anne Messel mother of Lord Snowdon by an earlier marriage. Lord Rosse was educated at Eton College Aiglon College Grenoble University and Christ Church Oxford. He was an officer in the Irish Guards from 1955–57 and worked for the United Nations from 1963-80. He succeeded his father in 1979.