Baron Fermoy: Difference between revisions

Previous letters patent had been issued on 14 May 1855 which purported to create this barony for Roche, but these were ruled invalid in 1856. Under the [[Acts of Union 1800]], three pre-1801 Irish peerages had to go extinct for each new Irish peerage created. The three extinct peerages cited in 1855 were Viscounts [[Viscount Melbourne|Melbourne]] and [[Viscount Tyrconnel|Tyrconnel]], and the [[Earl of Mountrath]]. However, although the earldom went extinct in 1802 with the death of the [[Charles Coote, 7th Earl of Mountrath|7th Earl of Mountrath]], the [[subsidiary title]] of [[Baron Castle Coote]] passed by [[special remainder]] and remained extant (until 1827). As a result, the [[Committee for Privileges]] of the [[House of Lords]] reasoned that while the number of peerages had reduced in 1802, the number of peers had not, thus the 1855 patent was incompatible with the terms of the Act of Union. The 1856 patent substituted [[Viscount O'Neill]] for Earl of Mountrath and was accepted.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=The Fermoy Peerage Claim |last1=Macdonell |first1=John |last2=Wallis |first2=John Edward Power |title=Reports of state trials |date=1888 |publisher=Eyre and Spottiswoode for HMSO |location=London |pages=723–786 |chapterurlchapter-url=https://archive.org/details/reportsstatetri01wallgoog/page/n389}}</ref>

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.

The family seat is Nethercote House, near Nethercote, [[Warwickshire]]. The first Baron was named after his relative [[Edmund Burke]], and they are descended from the [[House of Burke]].

[[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.

* [[Edmond Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy|Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy]] (1815–1874)

* [[Edward Roche, 2nd Baron Fermoy|Edward FitzEdmund Burke Roche, 2nd Baron Fermoy]] (1850–1920)

* [[James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy|James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy]] (1852–19201851–1920)

* [[Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy|(Edmund) Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy]] (1885–1955)

* [[Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy|Edmund James Burke Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy]] (1939–1984)

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

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

The heir presumptive's [[heir apparent]] is his son, Archie Edmund Roche (b.born 20052007).

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.{{page needed|date=November 2021}}

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