Baron Fermoy: Difference between revisions

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[[Image:Maurice Roche 2163448066 13967c95e5 o EDIT.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy|The 4th Baron Fermoy]]]]

The first Baron represented [[Cork County Cork (UK Parliament constituency)|County Cork]] and then [[Marylebone (UK Parliament constituency)|Marylebone]] in the British [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]], taking the [[Chiltern Hundreds]] the day the spurious 1855 patent was issued. He also served as [[Lord Lieutenant of County Cork]]. His younger son, the third Baron, sat as an Irish nationalist [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Kerry East (UK Parliament constituency)|Kerry East]]. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Baron. He, notablywho represented [[King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)|King's Lynn]] in Parliament as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]. The title is currently held by his grandson, the sixth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1984.

[[Diana, Princess of Wales]], was a great-great-granddaughter of the 1st Baron Fermoy through her mother, [[Frances Shand Kydd]]. Shand Kydd was the younger daughter of the [[Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy|4th Baron Fermoy]], a friend of [[George VI|King George VI]] and the elder of the twin sons of the American heiress [[Frances Ellen Work]] and her first husband, the Hon. [[James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy|James Boothby Burke Roche]], who, after their divorce, became the 3rd Baron Fermoy. Diana's maternal grandmother, [[Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy]], was a confidante and lady-in-waiting to [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]], and the founder of the annual [[King's Lynn]] Festival (of classical music) in [[Norfolk]], England.

* [[Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy|(Patrick) Maurice Burke Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy]] (born 1967)

The [[heir presumptive]] is the present holder's brother, the Hon. Edmund Hugh Burke Roche (born 1972).<br />

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{{chart| | | | |MR4B|MR4B='''[[Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy|Maurice Roche<br />4th Baron Fermoy]]'''<br />1885–1955}}

{{chart| | | | |ER5B|ER5B='''[[Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy|Edmund Roche<br />5th Baron Fermoy]]'''<br />1939–1984}}

{{chart| | | | |MR6B| |HER|MR6B=[[Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy|'''Maurice Roche<br />6th Baron Fermoy]]'''<br />born 1967|HER=Hon.<br />{{nowrap|Edmund Roche}}<br />born 1972}}

***** [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] '''[[Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy|(Patrick) Maurice Burke Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy]]''' (born 1967)

<ref name=DP>{{cite book |year=2019|chapter=Fermoy, Baron |editor1-last=Morris |editor1-first=Susan |editor2-last=Bosberry-Scott |editor2-first=Wendy |editor3-last=Belfield |editor3-first=Gervase |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|volume=1 |edition=150th |location=London |publisher=Debrett's Ltd. |publication-date=|pages=1415–1417|arxiv= |bibcode= |doi= |isbn=978-1-999767-0-5-1}}</ref>

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