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The Trench family is an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family whose members include the Earls of Clancarty and the Barons Ashtown. Pages in category "Trench family" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty, 2nd Marquess of Heusden (21 September 1803 – 26 April 1872), styled Viscount Dunlo between 1805 and 1837, was an Irish peer, as well a nobleman in the Dutch nobility.
Trench could not prevent the disestablishment of the Irish Church, though he resisted with dignity. But, when the disestablished communion had to be reconstituted under the greatest difficulties, it was important that the occupant of his position should be a man of a liberal and genial spirit.
Trench is a surname. The Trench family supposedly originated in County Galway , Ireland as descendants of Frederic de la Tranche, a 16th-century Huguenot immigrant from Normandy , and his wife Margaret Sutton , a possible Northumbrian . [ 1 ]
Trench was elected one of the 28 representative peers of Ireland on 16 December 1808. His seat in the House of Lords became hereditary when he was created Baron Trench (4 August 1815) and Viscount Clancarty (created 8 December 1823), in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , his older peerages being Irish peerages.
Trench's older cousin, Dermot Chenevix Trench, the model for "Haines" in Ulysses [2] and her sister, Margot, were also Irish nationalists. Dermot first taught her to speak Irish, and influenced her entry into the Irish-Ireland movement, whose members bought Irish-made goods for preference, and fostered Irish literature, art and culture.
William Frederick Le Poer Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty, 4th Marquess of Heusden (29 December 1868 – 16 February 1929) was an Irish peer of the House of Lords, a Dutch nobleman, and a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace of County Galway.
Trench died, aged 75, at Clonodfoy (otherwise known as Castle Oliver) and was buried at the family's mausoleum at Woodlawn, County Galway, a week later. [10] His older son Frederick having predeceased him in 1879, he was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Frederick. [10]