Baron Fermoy is a title in the Peerage of Ireland

Peerage of Ireland

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. It was created in 1856 for Edmond Roche

Edmond Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy

Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy was an Irish Member of Parliament.Fermoy was the son of Edward Roche and Margaret Honoria Curtain. He was elected to the House of Commons for County Cork in 1837, a seat he held until 1855, and then represented Marylebone between 1859 and 1865. In 1855 he was...

, who represented County Cork

Cork County (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Marylebone

Marylebone (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 and also served as Lord Lieutenant of County Cork. His younger son, the third Baron, sat as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Kerry East

Kerry East (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Baron. He notably represented King's Lynn

King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)

King's Lynn was a constituency in Norfolk, known as Lynn or Bishop's Lynn prior to 1537, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1885, and one member thereafter. Until 1918 it was a parliamentary borough, after which the name...

 in Parliament. the title is held by his grandson, the sixth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1984.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales

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, was a great-great-granddaughter of the first Baron Fermoy through her mother, Frances Shand Kydd

Frances Shand Kydd

Frances Ruth Shand Kydd was the first wife of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer and the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales...

. She was the daughter of the fourth Baron Fermoy, a friend of King George VI

George VI of the United Kingdom

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 and the elder of the twin sons of the American heiress Frances Work

Frances Work

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 and her first husband, Hon. James Boothby Burke Roche, who, after their divorce, became third Baron Fermoy. Her maternal grandmother Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy

Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy

Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, DCVO, OBE, was a friend and confidante of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the maternal grandmother of Lady Diana Spencer, later Princess of Wales....

 (née Ruth Sylvia Gill), was a confidante and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother)

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...

, and founder of the annual King's Lynn

King's Lynn

King's Lynn is a sea port and market town in the ceremonial county of Norfolk in the East of England. It is situated north of London and west of Norwich. The population of the town is 42,800....

 Festival (of classical music) in Norfolk

Norfolk

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, England.

Barons Fermoy

• Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy (1815–1874)
• Edmund FitzEdmund Burke Roche, 2nd Baron Fermoy (1850–1920)
• James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy
  James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy
  James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy was an Irish peer and a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons. He was the great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.-Biography:...
  
   (1852–1920)
• (Edmund) Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy (1885–1955) - maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales
  Diana, Princess of Wales
  Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...
  
  
• Edmund James Burke Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy
  Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy
  Edmund James Burke Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy was a British peer. He was a maternal uncle of Diana, Princess of Wales and attended her wedding to The Prince of Wales in 1981....
  
   (1939–1984) - maternal uncle of Diana, Princess of Wales
• (Patrick) Maurice Burke Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy
  Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy
  Patrick Maurice Burke Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy is a British peer. He is the eldest son of Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy and his wife, the former Lavinia Pitman. Lord Fermoy is also a cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales...
  
   (b. 1967) - first cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales

The heir presumptive

Heir Presumptive

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is the present holder's younger brother, the Hon. Edmund Hugh Burke Roche (b. 1972)