Robert Jocelyn, 4th Earl of Roden
Robert Jocelyn, 4th Earl of Roden (22 November 1846 – 10 January 1880), styled The Honourable Robert Jocelyn until 1854 and Viscount Jocelyn from 1854 to 1870, was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician.
Roden was the eldest son of Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn, eldest son of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden.
His mother was Lady Frances Elizabeth Clavering-Cowper, daughter of Peter Clavering-Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper.
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1868.
He gained the courtesy title of Viscount Jocelyn on his father's death in 1854.
By 1876, as reported in his Vanity Fair Caricature text he had already retired from the Life Guards.
Jocelyn succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1870.
In 1874 he was appointed a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the second Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli, a post he held until 1880.
Lord Roden died in office in January 1880, aged only 33.
He was unmarried and was succeeded in the earldom by his uncle, the Honourable John Strange Jocelyn, 5th Earl of Roden.
Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl of Roden
Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl of Roden KP, PC( Ire)( 26 October 1756 – 29 June 1820) was an Irish peer, soldier and politician.
He was styled The Honourable from his birth to 1771, and then Viscount Jocelyn from 1771 to 1797.
He was the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Roden and Lady Anne Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil.
He was a professional soldier, and the company of dragoons he commanded, nicknamed" the Foxhunters", gained much notoriety during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
In particular they played a leading role in the Gibbet Rath massacre at the Curragh of Kildare on 29 May 1798, where 350–500 insurgents, who had surrendered, were killed in cold blood.
In defence of Roden it can be said that he acted on the orders of his superior officer, General Duff, and that the action was widely condoned at the time.
In September his dragoons played a crucial part in the final defeat of the invading French army at the Battle of Ballinamuck: Lord Roden accepted the surrender of General Humbert.
He became Earl of Roden in 1797 after the death of his father Robert Jocelyn, 1st Earl of Roden and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 13 November 1806.
Jocelyn represented Maryborough in the Irish House of Commons between 1776 and 1778.
Between 1783 and 1797, he sat as Member of Parliament for Dundalk.
He turned down a Marquisate due to the lack of his fortune which was needed to uphold this position.
He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Louth for life in 1820.
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS( 13 January 1707 – 16 November 1762) was a writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.
The only son of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil( 1687 – 1708), daughter of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter.
He was born at Westminster and attended Christ Church, Oxford.
He published a translation of the letters of Pliny the Younger in 1751, and" Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift" in the same year, and the" Memoirs of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth".
His" Letters from Italy" was published in 1774 by J. Duncombe.
William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland
William de Moravia( also known as William Sutherland)( died 1370) was the 5th Earl of Sutherland and chief of Clan Sutherland.
William, 5th Earl of Sutherland was a loyal supporter of David II of Scotland in the wars against England.
William succeeded in taking Roxburgh Castle back from the English.
He married Margaret Bruce in 1345, a daughter of King Robert I of Scotland( Robert the Bruce) and his second wife Elizabeth de Burgh.
With Margaret Bruce, William, Earl of Sutherland only had one son: William, Earl of Sutherland married his second wife, Joanna daughter of Sir John Menteith in 1346.
In 1360, William, 5th Earl of Sutherland granted to his brother Nicholas Sutherland, younger son of the 4th Earl, the barony of Thoroboll.
From this Nicholas Sutherland descended the Sutherland Lairds of Duffus.
William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland had issue:
Robert Jocelyn, 1st Earl of Roden
Robert Jocelyn, 1st Earl of Roden( baptised 31 July 1731 – 21 June 1797) was an Irish peer and politician.
He was the only son of Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn and his first wife Charlotte Anderson.
He was MP for Old Leighlin from 1743 to 1756 and Auditor- General of the Exchequer from 1750 until his death.
He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father 3 December 1756, and on 1 December 1771 he was created Earl of Roden, of High Roding in County Tipperary.
On the death of his cousin, Sir Conyers Jocelyn, 4th Bt, of Hyde Hall, Hertford, he succeeded to the baronetcy.
John Strange (diplomat)
John Strange( 1732–1799) was an English diplomat and author.
James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres
James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres( 14 November 1691 – 20 February 1768) was a Scottish peer, the son of Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Balcarres and Lady Margaret Campbell, daughter of the Earl of Loudoun.
He became the 5th Earl of Balcarres on 25 July 1736 on the death of his brother Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Balcarres.
John Strange Jocelyn, 5th Earl of Roden
John Strange Jocelyn, 5th Earl of Roden, (born Tollymore Park House, Bryansford, County Down, 5 June 1823 - died London, England, 3 July 1897) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and representative peer.
He was the son of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, and inherited the title after the death of his nephew Robert Jocelyn, 4th Earl of Roden in 1880.
Jocelyn was educated at Harrow.
A lieutenant colonel in the Scots Guards
, Jocelyn served in the Crimean War, being present at the battles of Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman.
He later commanded the 2nd Jäger Corps, British German Legion.
He received the French Legion of Honour and the Turkish Order of the Medjidie.
He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of County Down.
He sat in the House of Lords as Baron Clanbrassil, a title his father had obtained in 1821, from 1880 until his death, although he made no contributions there.
At his death the title of Baron Clanbrassil went extinct; the Roden earldom passed to his first cousin William Henry Jocelyn (1842 - 1910).
The Jocelyns were large landowners, principally in County Down and County Louth.
Jocelyn married Sophia Hobhouse (1832 - 1916) in 1851; they had one daughter, Violet Jocelyn (1858-1925).
He is buried in Great St. Mary's church in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.
There is a pencil drawing of Jocelyn in the National Portrait Gallery by Frank Sargent.
John Strange Winter
Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard( 1856–1911) writing under the pseudonym of John Strange Winter, was a British novelist.
Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden
Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, (27 October 1788 – 20 March 1870), styled Viscount Jocelyn between 1797 and 1820, was an Irish Tory politician and supporter of Protestant causes.

Question: What is the date of death of John Strange Jocelyn, 5Th Earl Of Roden's father?
Answer: 20 March 1870