Irish soldier and adventurer who married the courtesan Harriette Wilson while he was in the Fleet Prison and afterwards lived with her in Paris; he had been a soldier in South America. He is perhaps the author of A Treatise upon Arcanography; or, a New Method of Secret Writing (1836).

REFERENCES TO William Henry Rochfort:

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte to Lady Morgan, 28 November [1825] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)