Horace William Noel Rochfort
Horace William Noel Rochfort JP DL (5 November 1809 – 16 May 1891) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and sheriff.
Early life[edit]
Rochfort was born on 5 November 1809 into the prominent Rochfort family. He was the only son of Col. John Staunton Rochfort (1763–1844) and, his first wife, Harriette Mann. His father served as High Sheriff of County Carlow in 1823. After his mother's death in 1810, his father married Mary Burgh (a daughter of Thomas Burgh, MP), with whom he had three more children, Dorothea Anne Rochfort (wife of Hon. Henry Spencer Law, fifth son of the 1st Baron Ellenborough), Anne Margaret Rochfort (wife of Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard), and John Downes Rochfort (who married Louisa Ruther Herbert Maynard).[1]
The Rochfort family first arrived in County Carlow when his great-great-grandfather, Robert Rochfort, bought 3,000 acres from the Butler family for his great-grandfather John Rochfort, High Sheriff of County Carlow in 1758.[2] John was married to Dorothea Burgh (sister to Thomas Burgh, both children of Thomas Burgh, MP for Lanesborough). His maternal grandparents were Sir Horatio Mann, 2nd Baronet and Lady Lucy Noel (a daughter of the 4th Earl of Gainsborough).[3]
Career[edit]
Between 1806 and 1815, his father built a new house which had 52 rooms including 30 bedrooms, 33 fireplaces, 365 panes of glass and cost approximately £32,000. As the eldest son, he inherited his father's estate upon his death in 1844.[2]
Rochfort was made Queen's Council in 1845. He served as High Sheriff of County Carlow in 1840 and High Sheriff of Queen's County in 1845. A Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace, Rochfort lived in the 15th century Clogrennane Castle, County Carlow, Ireland.[2]
Personal life[edit]
On 6 August 1837, he married Frances Elizabeth Cosby (1811–1841), a daughter of Thomas Cosby and Charlotte Elizabeth Kelly. Before her death on 25 March 1841, they were the parents of:[4]
- John de Burgh Rochfort (1838–1908), a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery who married his stepmother's niece, Hilare Charlotte Hall, daughter of Hon. Catherine Louisa Hood and Henry Hall of Barton Abbey, in 1863.[5]
- Horace William Rochfort (1839–1919), a captain in the Royal Navy who married Elizabeth Dalway, daughter of Marriott Robert Dalway, MP for Carrickfergus, in 1882.[6]
- Thomas Francis Cosby Rochfort (1841–1901), a Colonel in the 4th European Light Cavalry who married Jane Alice Maddison Philpott, daughter of Richard Price Philpott and Emma Stapley Clowes, in 1889.[6]
On 4 September 1845, he married Hon. Charlotte Hood, a daughter of Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport and Charlotte Hood, 3rd Duchess of Bronte.[7] Together, they were the parents of:
- William Robert Hood Rochfort (1847–1940), who married Helen Blanche Palmer, daughter of Robert Samuel Palmer and Anna Maria Deane Spread, in 1875; he lived at Cahir Abbey.[8]
- Sir Alexander Nelson Rochfort (1850–1916), a Major-General in the Royal Artillery who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey.[9][10]
- Amelia Catharine Rochfort (1851–1931), who married Thomas Pakenham Law, KC, son of Samuel Law and Sarah Pakenham, in 1871.[11]
Rochfort died on 16 May 1891, at age 81, at 30 Upper Merion Street, Dublin, Ireland.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ "Family of Rochfort". Irish Builder and Engineer. Howard MacGarvey & Sons.: 289 1887. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ a b c "The Rochfort Family Clogrennan Hall Benches (1806 to 1815 Ireland) MACK, WILLIAMS AND GIBTON". lapada.org. LAPADA. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ "MANN, Sir Horatio (1744-1814), of Linton, nr. Maidstone, Kent". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ Linzee, John William (1917). The Lindeseie and Limesi Families of Great Britain: Including the Probates at Somerset House, London, England, of All the Spellings of the Name Lindeseie from 1300 to 1800. The Fort Hill Press. p. 750. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ Bernard, Sir Burke, editor, Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 3rd ed. (London: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1912), page 601.
- ^ a b Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1910). Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 1382. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1848. p. 123. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ Pedigrees of Five Devonshire Families: Colby, Coplestone, Reynolds, Palmer and Johnson. William Pollard. 1884. p. 20. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ a b Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2502.
- ^ "Obituary: General Sir A. N. Rochfort". The Times. 6 December 1916. p. 12.
- ^ Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et (1994). "The" Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III., King of England. "The" Isabel of Essex Volume : containing the descendants of Isabel (Plantagenet) Countess of Essex and Eu. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-8063-1436-5. Retrieved 30 May 2024.