George's great-grandfather was the prominent lawyer Robert Rochfort, Attorney General of Ireland and Speaker of the House of Commons in 1695, and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1707.

He was estranged from his mother during his childhood, after his father locked her away after an alleged affair with George's uncle, Arthur.

Mr. George Rochfort supported the "Patriots", who demanded that parliaments last only seven years before being dissolved, rather than for the lifetime of the king, as was the custom.

The purpose was to "rouse the electors of Ireland to a due exertion of their lawful powers, and stimulate them to fix on proper men to maintain their rights and privileges in parliament.

[13] Dykmore declared that "The present members [Lord Belfield; Anthony Malone] for the County of WESTMEATH will never represent it again if the Electors have either sense, honour, or remembrance".

[15] She was prematurely aged, spoke in little more than a whisper but in a harsh, agitated and uneven manner, and was dressed in the style of thirty years earlier.

[16] She then returned to Ireland and lived first with George in Dublin and then with his sister, now Countess of Lanesborough, and her young family.

[19] It was finally completed and occupied in 1786, and probably stood alone at first, since in 1787 Rochfort was recorded as living in North Great George's Street.

A letter of 25 January 1800 from Lord Altamont to the Earl of Lucan said "Ld Belvedere has touched Government cash & possibly may not exert all his influence to give value in return for it".

[3] On his death, his sister Jane inherited the whole settled part of his great estate, since his brothers had died without children.

The eldest son and heir was George Augustus Boyd-Rochfort, and he assumed the arms and surname of Rochfort.