John Rochfort

John Rochfort ( – 30 January 1771) was a member of the pre-1801 Parliament of Ireland, in the Irish House of Commons.

Early life Rochfort was born in into the Rochfort family. He was the second son of Hannah Hannock (a daughter of William Hannock) and Robert Rochfort, who served as Attorney General for Ireland, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. His elder brother, George Rochfort, was MP for County Westmeath, and married Lady Elizabeth Moore (a daughter of the 3rd Earl of Drogheda), and had eleven children, including Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere and Arthur Rochfort.

Career Rochfort served in the Irish Parliament for Ballyshannon, County Donegal from 1713 to 1714 and from 1715 to 1727 and for Mullingar, County Westmeath from 1727 to 1760.

His estate included the lands of Newpark in Dublin, estates in County Westmeath and County Wexford. His primary estate was Clogrennane in County Carlow, which included the lands of Raheendoran, the ruins of Clogrennane Castle, and his seat, Clogrennane Lodge. and, together, were the parents of:

Robert Rochfort (d. 1755), who graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1744; he died unmarried. Deborah Rochfort (b. ), who married George Bishop of Bishop's Hall, County Kilkenny, in 1754. Thomas and his brother Robert were co-founders of Maunsell's Bank in Limerick. One of their junior partners was Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2nd Baronet, the wife of Mary's niece Anne.

After his first wife's death in 1737, he married Emilia ( Eyre) Wilson (–), a daughter of John Eyre, MP for Galway Borough, of Galway and widow of Rev. William Wilson of Shingles, County Westmeath, on 24 May 1746. John added to the estate by leasing estates at Clonskee in County Galway and purchasing additional lands of Adamstown and Milltown, Dublin. and Mary Burgh, a daughter of Thomas Burgh, MP; and the Rev. Robert Rochfort (1775–1811), the notorious "Slashing Parson" of 1798.