Rosse, William Parsons, third Earl of, born in York; devoted to the study of astronomy; constructed reflecting telescopes, and a monster one at the cost of £30,000 at Parsonstown, his seat in Ireland, by means of which important discoveries were made, specially in the resolution of nebulæ (1800‒1867).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rossbach * Rossetti, Charles Dante Gabriel