ROCHE, Sir George, Knt. (1902); son of the late William Roche, Crown Solicitor, Limerick, and ex-President of Incorporated Law Society, Ireland. Educ. at Stoneyhurst College, and at Downside College, Bath; admitted a Solicitor, 1874; ex-President of Incorporated Law Society of Ireland; Chairman of Solicitors' Benevolent Society (Ireland); b. 1850; m. 1874, Pauline, dau. of the late Christopher Chevers, Esq., of Killyan, Co. Galway, Res.: 76 Merrion Square, South, Dublin. Clubs: Hibernian Catch and Royal Dublin Society (Ireland); Irish Automobile, Dublin.
ROCHE, Col. Henry John, C.B. (1915), Indian Army. Educ. Stoneyhurst College, and Sandhurst; entered army (Cheshire Regt.), 1884; transferred to Indian Army, 1886; Captain, 1895; Major, 1902; Lt.-Col., 1910; Col., 1915; served N.W. Frontier, India, 1897-8; China, 1900 (Boxer Rebellion) European War, 1914-18. Recns.: shooting, fishing, golf; second son of late Capt. Charles Philip Roche, of Ballygran, Co. Limerick; b. 12th August, 1864; m. 1905, Gladys, dau. of Felix Drake, of North Coker, Somerset, and has issue two sons and one dau. Res.: Greenlawn, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset: Burnham Golf Club, and Burnham and County Club.
ROCHE, Sir Standish O'Grady, Bart. (Unit. Kgd., 1838); son of Sir Standish Deane O'Grady, 3rd Bart., and his second wife, Sybil, only dau. of Col. Dyson Lawrie, Border Regt., of 111 Gloucester Place, W.: b. 13th March, 1911; s. his father as 4th Bart., 9th Dec, 1914. Res.: Aghade, Tullow, Co. Carlow.
ROCHE, Lady, Sybil, dau. of late Col. Julius D. Dyson-Laurie; m. 1910 as his second wife. Sir Standish Deane O'Grady Roche, 3rd Bart. (d. 1914). Res.: Aghade, Tullow, Co. Carlow.
ROCHE-KELLY, Lieut.-Col. Basil James, late Major and Hon. Lieut.-Col.. Limerick City Royal Field Res. Artillery; Lord of the Manor of Islandmore; eldest son of late John Roche-Kelly, D.L., J.P., of Rockstown and Islandmore; b. 1877. Res.: Islandmore, Groom, Limerick.
ROCHFORT-BOYD, Col. Charles Augustus, C.M.G. (1900), R.E. (ret.); served in Egyptian Campaign, 1882; comd. Corps Troops, R.E., in S. African War, 1899-1900; second son of late G. A. Rochfort-Boyd, D.L., of Middleton Park, Castleton, Co. Westmeath; b. 1850; m., 1st, 1874, Adeline (d. 1902), dau. of late M. Longfield, D.L., of Castle Mary, Co. Cork; 2nd, 1906, Mrs. W. W. Whiston, of Birchwood, Fleet, Hants. Recns.: shooting and hunting. Res.; Belvedere House, Farnborough, Hants. Kildare Street, Dublin.
RODEN, Earl of, 1771; Viscount Jocelyn, 1755; Baron Newport, 1743 (Irld.); and a Baron (Engl., 1665), Robert Soame Jocelyn. 8th Earl; Capt. North Irish Horse; served in European War, 1914-17; elected a Representative Peer for Ireland, 1919: son of Robert Julian, 7th Earl, and Ada Maria, dau. of Col. Soame Gambler Jenyns, C.B.; b. 8th Sept., 1883; s. his father, 18th Dec, 1915; m. 19th July, 1905, Elinor Jessie, second dau. of Joseph Charlton Parr, D.L., J.P., of Grappenhall, Heyes, Cheshire, and has issue one son and two daus. Res.: Tullymore Park, Newcastle, Co. Down.
ROE, Lieut.-Col. William Francis, D.S.O. (1916), late Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C.; L.R.C.S.I.; Lecturer and Examiner in First Aid, L.C.C.; acted as surgeon on Bibby Line, and practised in Northampton Square, E.G., previous to War; served in European War, 1914-19; eldest son of late William Roe, M.D., of Dublin; b. 1871; m. 1900, Emma Mary Alexandrina, dau. of late Benjamin Ormsby, of Blackrock, Co. Dublin, and has issue one dau. Res.: 4 Durham Terrace, London, W.2. Club: Royal Automobile.
ROGERS, Reginald Arthur Percy, F.T.C.D. (1901); University Student (Maths, and Philosophy, 1896). Educ.: Monmouth Gram. Sch., Kilkenny College, The Abbey, Tipperary, Dublin University (M.A.). Pubns.: Short History of Ethics (1911); Fifth and sixth editions of Salmon's Geometry of Three Dimensions (1912, 1915); The Meaning of the Time-Direction (Mind, 1905); Hegel's Continuity and Cantorian philosophy (Mind, 1909). Articles in Hermathena on:—Berkeley and Kant (1904); A Theory of Geometric Proportion (1906); The Hypothetic Variable (1906); An Old Problem in Logic (1907); Transfinite Numbers and the Structure of Space and Time (1909); The Simple-Complex and Mr. Bergson's Ideas (1914): The Single Rule of the Antilogism (1920); papers in Proceedings, R.I.A. on:-The Logical Basis of Mathematics (1908); Differential Geometry of Congruences of Curves; Curl and Divergence of Vectors (1912); Representation of Orthogonal Transformations by Rotation and Translation in n. Dimensions. Articles in Irish Church Quarterly on:—English Church Gothic (1915); Idealism and Realism (1916), and subsequent articles on the same subject. Recns.: walking, cycling, etc Res.: 142 Leinster Road, Rathmines. Club: Common Room, Trinity College.
ROISTE, Liam De (M.P. for Cork City from Dec, 1918).
RONAN, The Right Hon. Stephen, P.C, Irld. (1915), M.A. (Q.U.I.): Lord Justice of Appeal, Ireland, 1915; Barrister King's Inns, 1870; Q.C. 1889; Bencher
