Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy

Patrick Maurice Burke Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy (11 October 1967) is an Irish peer.^[1]

He is the eldest son of Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy and his wife, Lavinia Pitman.

He was educated at Eton College, and served in the Blues and Royals. He also worked as a pub manager at the Windsor Castle pub in Campden Hill, London.

Lord Fermoy is a first cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales. He was Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother between 1982 and 1984. He inherited the title of Baron Fermoy when his father died in 1984.

Marriage and children

On 26 March 1998, he married Tessa Fiona Kayll, daughter of Major David Pelham Kayll and his wife, Sheila Morrison.

They have two daughters:

As Lord Fermoy has no sons, his heir is his younger brother, Edmund Hugh Burke Roche.

Ancestors of Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy

17. Elizabeth Boothby

18. Franklin H. Work

19. Ellen Wood

20. Alexander Ogston Gill

10. William Smith Gill

21. Barbara Smith Marr

22. David Littlejohn

11. Ruth Littlejohn

23. Jane Crombie

1. Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy

12. Ernest Pitman

25. Isabella Masters

6. John Pitman

26. James Butler

13. Frances Isabel Butler

27. Mary Elizabeth Alley

3. Lavinia Frances Elizabeth Pitman

7. Elizabeth Cattanach Donaldson

Arms of Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy
Coronet A Coronet of a Baron Crest Standing on a Rock proper an Osprey or Sea Eagle with wings displayed Argent collared gemelle Azure membered Or holding a Roach in its claw Escutcheon Gules three Roach naiant in pale Argent a Canton of the last Supporters Dexter: A Lion Erminois gorged with a Collar Sable therefrom pendent an Escutcheon Gules charged with three Roach naiant in pale Argent; Sinister: A Greyhound Pean gorged with a Collar Or therefrom pendent an Escutcheon per pale of the second and Gules charged with three Lions passant guardant in pale counterchanged Motto Mon Dieu Est Ma Roche (My God is my rock)

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Edmund Roche	Baron Fermoy 1984–present	Incumbent

Barons of Ireland*

Pre-1801	Kingsale Dunsany Trimlestown Dunboyne Louth Inchiquin Digby Carbery Aylmer Farnham Lisle Macdonald Kensington Newborough Massy Muskerry Stanley of Alderley, Sheffield & Eddisbury Kilmaine Waterpark Graves Huntingfield Rossmore Hotham Crofton ffrench Henley & Northington Clanmorris Langford Henniker & Hartismere Dufferin & Claneboye Dunalley Ventry Ashtown

Post-1801 (precedence mixed with Baronies of the UK)	Rendlesham Castlemaine Decies Garvagh Talbot of Malahide Carew (also UK) Oranmore & Browne & Mereworth Bellew Fermoy Rathdonnell

Current substantive barons, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest; Italics* denotes a barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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