Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 25 - Other M.P.’s
Other M.P.’s. — John La Roche (born 1700), M.P. for Bodmyn from 1727 till his death in 1752, was a son of Monsieur Pierre Crothaire of the Province of Bordeaux, who came to England as an attendant upon Prince George of Denmark, and assumed the name of La Roche by that Prince’s desire.
Sir James Laroche was the third son of the above (born 1734). He was elected M.P. for Bodmyn in 1768, and was made a Baronet 24th August 1776. He died in 1805. His sister Catherine, wife of Charles Berners, Esq. of Wolverston Park, Suffolk, died in 1800.
Joshua Mauger was twice elected M.P. for Poole, viz., in 1768 and 1774. He was a Director of the French Hospital in 1769. He often voted in minorities with Colonel Barré, and was sometimes one of the tellers in the divisions.
William Devaynes, an East India Director, and a Director of the French Hospital, was chosen M.P. for Barnstaple in 1774.