Thom's Irish Who's Who/Roden, Earl of

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.