James Boothby Burke Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy (28 July 1851 – 30 October 1920),[1] was a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, and he held a title in the Peerage of Ireland during the final two months of his life.
He was born in 1851 at Twyford Abbey, Middlesex, the son of Edmond Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy, and his wife Eliza Caroline née Boothby.
[3] In 1896, he stood as an Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation candidate in the Kerry East by-election for a seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Nationalists had split into two factions after the party leader, Charles Stewart Parnell, was named as co-respondent in a divorce.
During the campaign, Roche denied publicly that he knew of the divorce or that he had deserted his wife and children.