Walter Francis Roch (20 January 1880 – 3 March 1965), sometime MP (Lib.) for Pembrokeshire from 1908 to 1918 was a Welsh politician and landowner, whose political career ended when he continued to support H.H. Asquith over David Lloyd George.
Roch was born the second son of William Francis Roch, J.P., of Butter Hill, Pembrokeshire (who died in 1889) and his wife Emily Catherine Powell (she died in 1938), the second daughter of a Welsh Liberal politician Walter R.H. Powell, of Maesgwynne, Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, MP (Lib.) for Carmarthenshire, 1880–85, and West Carmarthenshire, 1885–89. He was educated at Twyford and Harrow Schools. He married Hon. Fflorens Mary Ursula Herbert (1879-1969), on 20 April 1911.[1] Fflorens was a published author[2] and Chief Commissioner for Girl Guides in Wales.[3] Roch was also a barrister at the Middle Temple from 1913.[4]
Roch was appointed to the Dardanelles Commission in 1916. He was the author of Mr. Lloyd George and the War (1920). In 1934 he was appointed JP for Monmouthshire. He and his wife spent the last twenty-five years of his life on their estates.
Referencesedit
^"Forthcoming Marriage". South Wales Gazette. Newport, Wales. 31 March 1911. p. 5.
^"Sands & Co". Westminster Gazette. London, UK. 31 May 1913. p. 5.
^"V.A.D. Revival". Brecon County Times. Brecon, Wales. 30 October 1924. p. 2.
^The source for most of this information is Walter Roch's mini-biography by Dr John Graham Jones. [1]. Retrieved 10 August 2007
^ ab"PEMBROKE VACANCY". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 4 July 1908. Retrieved 4 February 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^Use your vote: the Suffragette movement in Pembrokeshire remembered, Western Telegraph, by Joanna Sayers, 10 April 2015
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