Career
He also served as aide-de-camp to the Governor-General of New Zealand through January 1938 while a Royal Navy lieutenant. He became baronet on 9 December 1914 at the age of 3 on the death of his father Standish Dean O'Grady Roche. His mother was Cecilia, daughter of Henry Dean O'Grady of Lodge, County Limerick, Stillorgan Castle, County Dublin, and Merrion Square.
He sold the family's Carlow estate in 1968.
