Baron Fermoy is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1856 for Edmond Roche, who represented County Cork and Marylebone in the House of Commons and also served as Lord Lieutenant of County Cork. His younger son, the third Baron, sat as Member of Parliament for Kerry East. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Baron. He notably represented King's Lynn in Parliament. As of 2009 the title is held by his grandson, the sixth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1984.
4th Baron Fermoy
Diana, Princess of Wales, was a great-great-granddaughter of the first Baron Fermoy through her mother, Frances Shand Kydd. She was the daughter of the fourth Baron Fermoy, a friend of King George VI and the elder of the twin sons of the American heiress Frances Work and her first husband, Hon. James Boothby Burke Roche, who, after their divorce, became third Baron Fermoy. Her maternal grandmother Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy (née Ruth Sylvia Gill), was a confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother), and founder of the annual King's Lynn Festival (of classical music) in Norfolk, England.
Barons Fermoy
- Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy (1815–1874)
- Edward FitzEdmund Burke Roche, 2nd Baron Fermoy (1850–1920)
- James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy (1852–1920)
- (Edmund) Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy (1885–1955) - maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales
- Edmund James Burke Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy (1939–1984)
- (Patrick) Maurice Burke Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy (b. 1967)
The Heir Presumptive is the present holder's brother the Hon. Edmund Hugh Burke Roche (b. 1972)
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]