Railway Club at Oxford, conceived by John Sutro, dominated by Harold Acton. Left to right, back: Henry Yorke, Roy Harrod, Henry Weymouth, David Plunket Greene, Harry Stavordale, Brian Howard. Middle row: Michael Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, Patrick Balfour, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, Johnny Drury-Lowe; front: porters.
Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, KBE (28 September 1906 – 5 July 1979) was an Anglo-Irishpeer.
Early life and education
Parsons was the son of William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse, whom he succeeded in 1918, and Frances Lois Lister-Kaye, daughter of Sir Cecil Edmund Lister-Kaye, 4th Bt. and Lady Beatrice Adeline Pelham-Clinton.
Lord Rosse fought in the Second World War, reaching the rank of captain in the Irish Guards. He was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) in 1945. Lord Rosse held the office of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin between 1949 and 1964 and was Pro-Chancellor of the university from 1965 to 1979.
Hon. Desmond Oliver Martin Parsons (23 December 1938 – 16 July 2010),[5] married Aline Edwina Macdonald, daughter of George Alexander Macdonald and had issue.
^"Then there was the Oxford Railway Club, formed to popularize the pleasures of drinking on trains at night. A party of a dozen young men in full evening dress would board the Penzance-Aberdeen express at Oxford and travel on it as far as Leicester; they would return at once on the Aberdeen-Penzance express. On the outward journey they would dine, and on the way back make speeches." Graña, C., & Graña, M. (1990). On Bohemia: The code of the self-exiled. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers