Baron Fermoy
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Baron Fermoy is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. The title was created by Queen Victoria by letters patent of 10 September 1856 for Edmond Roche.
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
History
The first Baron represented
The family seat is Nethercote House, near Nethercote,
Royal connections
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 4th Baron Fermoy, a friend of King George VI and the elder of the twin sons of the American heiress Frances Ellen Work and her first husband, the Hon. 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.
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 (1851–1920)
- (Edmund) Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy (1885–1955)
- Edmund James Burke Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy (1939–1984)
- (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).
The heir presumptive's heir apparent is his son, Archie Edmund Roche (born 2007).
Male-line family tree
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Line of succession
Line of succession
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See also
References
Sources
- Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. London: Dean & Son. p. 367.
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.[page needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
Citations
- ^ Macdonell, John; Wallis, John Edward Power (1888). "The Fermoy Peerage Claim". Reports of state trials. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode for HMSO. pp. 723–786.
- ISBN 978-1-999767-0-5-1.