Mary Cynthia Roche

Mary Cynthia Burke Roche (19 August 1934 – 3 March 2023) was a British aristocrat, schoolteacher, and writer.

Biography Born at Peterculter, Aberdeenshire, on 19 August 1934, she was the eldest child of Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, and Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Roche was educated at Heathfield School, Ascot; St Paul's Girls' School, London; and in Florence, where she studied Italian and art history. , div. 1966), later a Conservative MP, was killed in the Brighton hotel bombing; they had four children. She married Denis Geoghegan, a UCL tutor, in 1973 (div. 1980), and classics master Michael Gunningham in 1981 (div. 1989).