Augustine Roche

(Michael) Augustine Roche (c.1849 – 7 December 1915)[1] was an Irish Parliamentary Party politician from Cork. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1905 to 1910, and from 1911 until his death.[2]

He first stood for election to the United Kingdom House of Commons as a Parnellite candidate at a by-election in June 1895 for Cork City constituency, where William O'Brien MP had resigned his seat.[3] He was narrowly defeated in the by-election by the Anti-Parnellite candidate J. F. X. O'Brien,[3] and lost again at the general election in July 1895, when both of Cork City's two seats were won by Anti-Parnellites.[4]

After that second defeat, he did not stand again until J. F. X. O'Brien died in May 1905, and at the resulting by-election on 14 June he was returned unopposed for the Irish Parliamentary Party,[5] the two sides having reunited in 1900. He was re-elected unopposed at the 1906 general election.[6] He held the seat again in January 1910, against a strong challenge from the All-for-Ireland League, whose leader William O'Brien took one of the two seats.[7] The League had split its vote in January by fielding three candidates in Cork, but at the next general election, in December 1910, their two candidates took both seats.[8]

However, the winner of the December 1910 election in North Louth, Richard Hazleton, had been unseated after an electoral petition, and Roche was elected unopposed at the resulting by-election ion 15 March 1911.[9] He held the seat untic his death in December 1915, aged about 59.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Historical list of MPs: House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C", part 5". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons5.htm. Retrieved 4 December 2009. 
  2. ^ Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958 Vol 5 Page 99.
  3. ^ a b Brian M. Walker, ed (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 151. ISBN 0 901714 12 7. 
  4. ^ Walker, op. cit., page 152
  5. ^ Walker, op. cit., page 164
  6. ^ Walker, op. cit., page 166
  7. ^ Walker, op. cit., page 172
  8. ^ Walker, op. cit., page 178
  9. ^ Walker, op. cit., page 182

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William O'Brien
J. F. X. O'Brien		 Member of Parliament for Cork City
1905 – December 1910
With: William O'Brien to 1909
Maurice Healy 1908 – Jan 1910
William O'Brien from Jan 1910		 Succeeded by
Maurice Healy
William O'Brien
Preceded by
Richard Hazleton		 Member of Parliament for North Louth
1911 – 1915		 Succeeded by
Patrick Whitty