Baron Fermoy: Difference between revisions

The first Baron represented [[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.

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