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Dr.
Jacob Damien John
Roche KCEG
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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 23rd April
2013. Registration No.
0254 (Vol.2).
Arms:
Gules three
roaches naiant in pale
Argent, a bordure
engrailed of the last
charged in dexter
chief with
scales-of-justice
Gules and in sinister
chief a book Proper
covered of the first.
Crest:
On a rock
sable a stork Argent
armed, legged, beaked,
langued and collared
Gules grasping in the
dexter claw a roach of
the second.
Motto:
Mon Dieu Est
Ma Roche
Registration:
Royal College
of Arms of Georgia 23rd
January 2013.
Conferral: Knight
Commander of the Royal
Order of the Eagle of
Georgia December 2012.
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The
armiger is the son of
Augustine Roche of
Dublin; son of William
Roche of Dublin; son of
Charles Roche of Dublin;
son of William Roche of
Dublin born 1806. This
branch of the Roche
family is believed to
descend from the Roche
family of Rye Hill and
Granagh Castle who are a
cadet branch of the
Viscounts Roche of
Fermoy created 1461. The
Anglo- Norman Roche
family came to Ireland
in 1169. The first
recorded spelling of the
family name Roche is
shown to be that of John
de Roches, which was
dated 1086, in the
Domesday Book
(Bedfordshire), during
the reign of King
William, known as "The
Conqueror", 1066 - 1087.
The motto, Mon Dieu Est
Ma Roche (My God is My
Rock) has been used by
the Roche family since
at least 1169.
The armiger is the great
great great great
grandson of Right
Honourable Jacob Poole
of Ballyroan who was
Lord Mayor of Dublin in
1802. The Poole family
originally from Poole
Hall in Cheshire and
came to Ireland in 1649
to Taghmon in Wexford as
Cromwellian settlers.
The armiger is the
grandson of Margaret Ann
Reid a scion of the Reid
family of Grayston Park
Dumfriesshire who were
created Baronets of
Ewell Grove in surrey in
1823.
The armiger holds an
honours Law degree LLB
from the University of
Wales, United Kingdom,
an MBA from Trinity
College Dublin Ireland
(KPMG Award-Winner), an
MSc in Economics by
research from University
College Dublin Ireland
and a PhD from the
University of
Strathclyde, United
Kingdom. He is also a
Barrister-at law of the
Honorable Society of
King’s Inns, a Fellow of
the Institute of
Chartered Secretaries
and Administrators,
United Kingdom, an
Associate of the Irish
Taxation Institute, and
a Certified Public
Accountant as well as a
Freeman of the City of
London since 2006 and is
a Liveryman of the
Worshipful Company of
Chartered Secretaries
and Administrators of
London since 2006.
The armiger is a Knight
Commander of the Royal
Order of the Eagle of
Georgia and upon
conferral received a
grant of supporters from
The Royal College of
arms of Georgia.
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