Baron Fermoy

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 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 Melbourne and Tyrconnel, and the Earl of Mountrath. However, although the earldom went extinct in 1802 with the death of the 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.^[1]

History

The first Baron represented County Cork and then Marylebone in the British 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. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Baron, who represented King's Lynn in Parliament as a 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.

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, 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, Edmund Hugh Burke Roche (born 1972).
The heir presumptive's heir apparent is his son, Archie Edmund Roche (born 2007).

Male-line family tree

Male-line family tree, Barons Fermoy.

Edmond Roche
1st Baron Fermoy
1815–1874

Edward Roche
2nd Baron Fermoy
1850–1920

James Roche
3rd Baron Fermoy
1851–1920

Maurice Roche
4th Baron Fermoy
1885–1955

Edmund Roche
5th Baron Fermoy
1939–1984

Maurice Roche
6th Baron Fermoy
born 1967

Hon.
Edmund Roche
born 1972

Archie Roche
born 2007

Line of succession

Edmund 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)
      - (1) Hon. Edmund Hugh Burke Roche (born 1972)
        (2) Archie Edmund Roche (born 2007)
- Hon. Alexis Charles Burke Roche (1853–1914)
  - George Denis Burke Roche (1893–1954)
    - Alexis Martinus Burke Roche (1922–1989)
      - (3) Peter Martin Burke Roche (born 1974)

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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 ^{[self-published source]} ^{[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.
^ Morris, Susan; Bosberry-Scott, Wendy; Belfield, Gervase, eds. (2019). "Fermoy, Baron". Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Vol. 1 (150th ed.). London: Debrett's Ltd. pp. 1415–1417. ISBN 978-1-999767-0-5-1.

[1] Macdonell, John; Wallis, John Edward Power (1888). "The Fermoy Peerage Claim". Reports of state trials. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode for HMSO. pp. 723–786.

[DP-2] Morris, Susan; Bosberry-Scott, Wendy; Belfield, Gervase, eds. (2019). "Fermoy, Baron". Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Vol. 1 (150th ed.). London: Debrett's Ltd. pp. 1415–1417. ISBN 978-1-999767-0-5-1.

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v t e Extant baronies in the Peerage of Ireland
Sorted by (historical) entity at time of grant
Lordship of Ireland	Kingsale Dunsany Dunboyne Louth
Kingdom of Ireland	Inchiquin Digby^* Carbery Aylmer Farnham Lisle Newborough Macdonald Kensington^• Massy Muskerry Sheffield^• Auckland^* Kilmaine Waterpark Graves Huntingfield Carrington^* Rossmore^• Hotham Crofton ffrench Henley^• Langford Dufferin and Claneboye Henniker^• Ventry Dunalley Clanmorris Ashtown
United Kingdom	Rendlesham Castlemaine Decies Garvagh Talbot of Malahide Carew^• Oranmore and Browne^• Bellew Fermoy Rathdonnell
^* Also a Baron in the Peerage of Great Britain ^• Also a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom