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Edmond Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy

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Edmond Burke Roche
1st Baron Fermoy
Tenure1855–1874
SuccessorEdward Roche, 2nd Baron Fermoy
Known forGreat-great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales
Born9 August 1815
County Cork, Ireland
Died17 September 1874(1874-09-17) (aged 59)
Trabolgan, County Cork, Ireland
NationalityBritish
OfficesLord Lieutenant of County Cork
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Caroline Boothby
ParentsEdward 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 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
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Marylebone
with Edwin James 1859–1861
John Harvey Lewis 1861–1865
1859–1861 		Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Cork
1856–1874 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
New creation Baron Fermoy
1855–1874 		Succeeded by

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