Frederick Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown

Noble person

1868 – 1946

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Who was Frederick Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown?

Frederick Oliver Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown was an Anglo-Irish landowner and opponent of the United Irish League.

He was the eldest son of Frederick Sydney Charles Trench and Anne Le Poer Trench.

At the age of twelve, he became the 3rd Baron Ashtown and inherited a vast estate and reputedly over a million pounds. Some of Lord Ashtown's County Galway estate was located in Killimordaly, County Galway. According to valuation records he was landlord for the following townlands: Caraunbeg, Caraunmore, Creevagh, Dooghloon, Gortnaboha and Island.

He was educated at Eton College.

On 11 January 1894, he married Violet Grace Cosby, the youngest daughter of Col. Robert Ashworth Godolphin Cosby of Stradbally Hall, Queen's County.

He was a hard-line Unionist; in 1906-10 he edited a monthly publication, Grievences from Ireland, which denounced all political expressions of Irish nationalism as treasonable.

He was elected a representative peer in 1908. He died in 1946.

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Born
Feb 2, 1868
Education
  • Eton College
Lived in
  • County Galway
Died
Mar 20, 1946

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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