Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown
Nigel Clive Cosby Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown,
Trench was born in St Albans,[1] the son of Clive Newcome Trench and Kathleen Maud Marion McIvor. He was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
After rising to the rank of Major in the
In 1990, after his retirement, he inherited the Irish peerage of Baron Ashtown from his cousin Christopher Trench, 6th Baron Ashtown.
Honours
Trench was appointed a Commander of the
Personal life
He married Marcelle Catherine Clotterbooke Patijn van Kloetinge in 1939, with whom he had one son, Roderick Trench, 8th Baron Ashtown. He succeeded a cousin as Baron Ashtown in 1990. His wife died in 1994.
Lord Ashtown then married Dorothea Mary Elizabeth Minchin (d. 20 December 2019), former wife of Hans Heinrich XVII, 4th Prince of Pless, in 1997.[4]
He died in London in 2010 and was succeeded as Baron Ashtown by his son, Roderick.
References
- ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
- ^ "No. 44004". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1966. p. 6532.
- ^ "No. 46919". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1976. p. 8018.
- ^ "Portrait of Lord Ashtown (Baron Frederick Mason Trench:1804-1880)".
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 123.