Roche was born Michael Augustine Roche, to Michael Roche of Cork. He was educated privately.
Careeredit
He became head of the firm of A. Roche and Co., wine merchants with premises at 40, King Street (now Mac Curtain Street) Cork. He lived at 73 Douglas Street and was elected to Cork Corporation in 1883 and held the position of Mayor of Cork in 1893 and 1894 and Lord Mayor of Cork in 1904. He was the only person to hold the positions of both Mayor and Lord Mayor of Cork.[1] He was a Justice of the Peace and elected Sheriff of Cork City for 1902. During his year in office as Sheriff, he visited Berlin to present to the Berlin Rowing club a silver cup subscribed for by the citizens of Cork as a recognition of their performance in an international competition held in Cork earlier that year.[4]
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 on 15 March 1911.[11] He held the seat until his death in December 1915, aged about 66.[2]
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^ ab"Contemporary Biographies - Page 277" (PDF). Corkpastandpresent.ie. (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
^ ab. Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 20 December 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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