Alexander Roche, Baron Roche

Alexander Adair Roche, Baron Roche PC (24 July 1871 – 22 December 1956),[1] known under his second surname, was a British barrister and law lord.

Background

He was the second son of William Brock Roche and his wife Mary Fraser, daughter of William Fraser.[2] Roche was educated at Ipswich School and studied then at Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1894 and a Master of Arts in 1913.[2] He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1896 and went to the Northern Circuit.[3]

Career

Roche became a King's Counsel in 1912 and was elected a bencher in 1917.[4] Later in that year, he was appointed to the High Court of Justice (King's Bench Division), on which occasion he was created a Knight Bachelor.[4] He served as chairman of the Oxfordshire Quarter Sessions from 1932 and held the same post in the Central Agricultural Wages Board from 1940.[5]

In 1934, Roche was made a Lord Justice of Appeal and was sworn of the Privy Council.[5] On 14 October 1935 to fill a vacancy he was nominated a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary receiving the traditional life peerage as Baron Roche, of Chadlington, in the County of Oxfordshire.[6] Roche retired in 1938 and a year thereafter he became Treasurer of the Inner Temple.[7]

Family

On 22 March 1902, he married Elfreda Gabriel, third daughter of John Fenwick and had by her two sons and a daughter.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Retrieved 17 January 2009.
  2. 1 2 Walford, Edward (1919). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. p. 1148.
  3. ↑ Debrett, John (1922). Arthur G. M. Hesilrige, ed. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son Ltd. pp. 343–344.
  4. 1 2 Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companioage. J. Whitaker & Sons. 1923. p. 484.
  5. 1 2 Who is Who 1951. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1951. p. 2442.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 34209. p. 6541. 18 October 1935. Retrieved 17 November 2009.
  7. 1 2 "ThePeerage - Alexander Adair Roche, Baron Roche". Archived from the original on 22 November 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2009.

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