A large George II silver salver, David Willaume, London, 1744

with S.J. Shrubsole, New York, 2019

The arms are those of Harman with Sheppard in pretence for Frances Sheppard (d. 1766) of Newcastle, second wife of Wentworth Harmon (d. 1719) of Castle Roe, County Carlow. She was the sister and heir of Anthony Sheppard. Wentworth's daughter, Anne married Sir Lawrence Parsons, 3rd baronet, Birr Castle, King's County (Offaly). Their son, Lawrence Parsons-Harman (1749-1807), of Newcastle House, served as an M.P. and was created Lord Oxmantown in 1792, and Earl of Rosse in 1806. He married Lady Jane King in 1772; she is still referred to in Longford lore as Lady Rosse. On Lawrence's death, the title passed to his nephew Sir Lawrence Parsons, 5th bart., and his Harman estates to his only child, Lady Frances Parsons-Harman. She married Robert Edward, 1st Viscount Lorton (died in 1854), in 1799.