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Birr Castle Demesne
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Businesses (2)
- Mill Stone Hill coal mine Heaton, Yorkshire
- Randall Wilmer, attorney, Staple Inn Westminster, Middlesex
Organisations (1)
- Heaton parish Heaton, Lancashire
Persons (36)
- Acton, Sir Harold Mario, (1904-1994), Knight, historian, art critic and connoisseur
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Babbage, Charles, (1792-1871), mathematician
- Barrington, Sir Charles Burton, (1848-1943), 5th Baronet
- Browne, Denis, (1763-1828), MP for Co Mayo
- Burrowes, Peter, (1753-1841), Irish Politician
- Copeland, Ralph, (1837-1905), Astronomer
- Dreyer, John Louis Emile, (1852-1926), Astronomer
- Edgeworth, Maria, (1768-1849), novelist and children's writer
- Flood, Henry, (1732-1791), MP
- Grubb, Sir Howard, (1844-1931), Knight Scientist
- Grubb, Thomas, (1800-1878), Optician
- Harman, Lawrence Harman, (1749-1807), 1st Earl of Rosse
- Hawke, Edward, (1705-1781), 1st Baron Hawke, Admiral of the Fleet
- Hawke, Martin Bladen, (1744-1805), 2nd Baron Hawke
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet, astronomer
- Hind, John Russell, (1823-1895), Astronomer
- Hohler, Thomas Theobald, (1839-1892), tenor
- Kavanagh, Arthur Macmorrough, (1831-1889), MP
- Markham, William, (1719-1807), Archbishop of York
- Parsons, Sir Charles Algernon, (1854-1931), Knight, engineer and scientist
- Parsons, Sir Laurence, (1707-1756), 3rd Baronet Irish MP
- Parsons, Laurence, (1840-1908), 4th Earl of Rosse, astronomer
- Parsons, Laurence Michael Harvey, (1906-1979), 6th Earl of Rosse
- Parsons, Lawrence, (1758-1841), 2nd Earl of Rosse
- Parsons, Sir William, (d 1741), 2nd Baronet Irish MP
- Parsons, Sir William, (1731-1791), 4th Baronet Irish MP
- Parsons, William, (1800-1867), 3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer
- Robinson, Thomas Romney, (1792-1882), astronomer
- Rue, Warren de la, (1815-1889), chemist and astronomer
- Sabine, Sir Edward, (1788-1883), Knight, General, geophysicist
- Stewart, Robert, (1769-1822), 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, statesman
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, (1819-1903), 1st Baronet mathematician and physicist
- Stoney, George Johnstone, (1826-1911), Physicist
- Vesey, Ivo Richard, (1881-1951), 5th Viscount De Vesci
- Wentworth, Sir Thomas, (d 1747), Knight Lieutenant General
Families (5)
- Hawke family, Barons Hawke: Womersley Park Womersley Park, Yorkshire
- Lister-Kaye family, baronets, of Denby Grange Denby Dale, Yorkshire
- Parsons family, Earls of Rosse: Birr Castle Birr Castle, County Offaly;Heaton, Yorkshire
- Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family, Barons Saye and Sele Broughton, Oxfordshire;Lincolnshire;Lincolnshire
- Wilmer Field family of Heaton Hall, Bradford Heaton Hall, Yorkshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (1)
- NRA 25548 Parsons family, Earls of Rosse: family and estate papers