Edmond Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy

Edmond Burke Roche
Born 9 August 1815
County Cork, Ireland
Died 17 September 1874(1874-09-17) (aged 59)
Trabolgan, County Cork, Ireland
Title 1st Baron Fermoy
Tenure 1855–1874
Known for Great-great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales
Nationality British
Offices Lord Lieutenant of County Cork
Successor Edward Roche, 2nd Baron Fermoy
Spouse(s) Elizabeth Caroline Boothby
Parents Edward Roche
Margaret Honoria Curtain

Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy (9 August 1815 – 17 September 1874) was an Irish politician in the British parliament and an Irish peer. His direct ancestor was Maurice FitzEdmund Roche, Mayor of Cork, who died in 1593.

Edmond Roche was born on 9 August 1815 in County Cork, Ireland, the son of Edward Roche (1771–1855) and his wife Margaret Honoria Curtain (1786–1862). He was named in honor of his distant relative Edmund Burke (1729–1797). He was elected to the House of Commons for County Cork in 1837, a seat he held until 1855 (Repeal later Whig), and then represented Marylebone between 1859 and 1865 (Liberal). He became in 1855 Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds for the Liberal Party. From 1856 to 1874 he also served as Lord Lieutenant of County Cork. In 1865 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Fermoy by Queen Victoria.

On 22 August 1848 Edmond Roche married Elizabeth Caroline Boothby (1821–1897), daughter of James Brownell Boothby (1791–1850), of Twyford Abbey, and his wife Charlotte Cunningham (1799–1893). He died on 17 September 1874 at his residence Trabolgan House, County Cork, aged 59, and was buried in a mausoleum in Corkbeg graveyard, Whitegate, County Cork. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Edward Roche, 2nd Baron Fermoy (1850–1920). James Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy (1852–1920), who succeeded his sonless brother in 1920, was also their son. Their daughter The Hon. Elizabeth Caroline Burke Roche (1857–1940) married in 1905 German aristocrat Count Friedrich Maximilian von Hochberg (1868–1921), brother of Count Hans Heinrich XV of Hochberg, Prince of Pless (1861–1938). Lord and Lady Fermoy's grandson Edmund Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy (1885–1955), was the maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by
    Garrett Standish Barry
    Richard Longfield
    Member of Parliament for County Cork
    with Garrett Standish Barry 1837–1841
    Daniel O'Connell 1841–1847
    Maurice Power 1847–1852
    Vincent Scully 1852–1855

    1837–1855
    Succeeded by
    Vincent Scully
    Rickard Deasy
    Preceded by
    Sir Benjamin Hall
    Edwin James
    Member of Parliament for Marylebone
    with Edwin James 1859–1861
    John Harvey Lewis 1861–1865

    1859–1861
    Succeeded by
    John Harvey Lewis
    Sir Thomas Chambers
    Honorary titles
    Preceded by
    The Earl of Bandon
    Lord Lieutenant of Cork
    1856–1874
    Succeeded by
    The Earl of Bandon
    Peerage of Ireland
    New creation Baron Fermoy
    1855–1874
    Succeeded by
    Edward Roche
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