Frederick Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown

The Right Honourable
The Lord Ashtown
DL
High Sheriff of County Galway
In office
1840–1840
Preceded bySir John Burke, Bt
Succeeded byAndrew William Blake
Personal details
Born
Frederick Mason Trench

(1804-12-25)25 December 1804
Died12 September 1880(1880-09-12) (aged 75)
Spouses
Harriet Georgiana Cosby
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(m. 1831; died 1845)​
Elizabeth Oliver Gascoigne
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(after 1852)​
RelationsFrederick Trench, 1st Baron Ashtown (uncle)
Frederick Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown (grandson)
Children5, including Cosby
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge

Frederick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown DL (25 December 1804 – 12 September 1880)[1] was an Irish peer and magistrate.

Early life

He was son of Francis Trench and his wife Mary Mason, second daughter of Henry Mason, and nephew to Frederick Trench, 1st Baron Ashtown.[2]

Career

While his claim to his uncle's title was admitted only in 1855,[3] he actually succeeded per special remainder on the latter's death in 1840.[2] Trench was educated at the University of Cambridge.[4] He was appointed High Sheriff of County Galway for 1840[5] and represented the county as Deputy Lieutenant.[4]

Personal life

On 29 August 1831, he married firstly Harriet Georgiana Cosby, youngest daughter of Thomas Cosby, of Stradbally Hall and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Kelly (daughter of Rt. Hon. Thomas Kelly, Second Justice of the Common Pleas of Ireland).[6] Together, they were the parents of two daughters and three sons, including:[7]

After his first wife's death on 25 February 1845, he married Elizabeth Oliver Gascoigne in Aberford on 10 February 1852. She was the second daughter of Richard Oliver Gascoigne, of Parlington Hall and Mary Turner (daughter of Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Kirkleatham).[6] He lived much of the year at Castle Oliver, which was built in 1845 by his second wife and her sister Isabella.[9]

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] His second surviving son Cosby, who inherited Castle Oliver, was a soldier and magistrate.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
  2. ^ a b Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. pp. 95–96.
  3. ^ "Summary of News". Anglo-Celt. 26 July 1855. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
  4. ^ a b Debrett, John (1876). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. London: Dean & Son. p. 29.
  5. ^ "Galway Assizes". Connaught Journal. 12 March 1840. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
  6. ^ a b Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (28th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. p. 28.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Ashtown, Baron (I, 1800)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  8. ^ Walford, M.A., Edward (1893). The Windsor Peerage Baronetage and Knightage: for 1890-1894. Piccadilly, London: Chatto & Windus. p. 119. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  9. ^ Browne, Nicholas (2008). Castle Oliver and The Oliver Gascoignes. p. 17.
  10. ^ a b c "ThePeerage - Frederick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown". Retrieved 14 December 2006.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Baron Ashtown
claim admitted in 1855
1840–1880 		Succeeded by