Thursday, 19 December 2013
356 Edmond Roche aka Lord Fermoy
Constituency : County Cork 1837-52 Marylebone 1859-65
Edmond replaced Sir Benjamin Hall at Marylebone after his elevation to the Lords.
Edmond , an Irish landlord related to Edmund Burke, had previously represented County Cork for sixteen years. In 1856 he was created Baron Fermoy for political services although as an Irish peer he was still eligible to stand for the House of Commons. He had moved to London after losing large estates in Cork and Limerick as a result of Irish disorder.
Edmond was a Radical and attacked those Liberals who resisted Parliamentary Reform. Gladstone's biographer Richard Shannon describes him as "a political non-entity".
Edmond left Parliament in 1865 but Gladstone used him as a sort of unofficial envoy to Ireland in the 1874 election campaign.
He died in 1874 aged 59. He was a maternal ancestor of Diana Princess of Wales.
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