Col. Richard le Poer Trench of Garbally, MP

Col. Richard Trench MP

The Peerage

Richard Trench was born in 1710.1 He was the son of Frederick Richard Trench and Elizabeth Eyre.1 He married Frances Power, daughter of David Power and Elizabeth Keating, on 13 March 1732.1 He died in 1768. He was buried at Ballinasloe, IrelandG.2

He gained the rank of Colonel in the Militia Dragoons of County Galway.3 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Whig) for County Galway [Ireland] in 1761.1

He lived at Garbally, County Galway, Ireland G.4

Children of Richard Trench and Frances Power:

• Elizabeth Power Trench b. 1736
• Hester Power Trench b. 1736
• Frederick Trench1 b. b 1741
• David Trench b. b 1741
• William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty b. 23 Jun 1741, d. 27 Apr 1805
• Rose Power Trench b. 1746
• Major John Power Trench b. 1748
• Lt.-Gen. Eyre Power Trench b. 1749, d. 14 Apr 1820 (note: wrong date of his death)
• Jane Power Trench b. 1752
• Nicholas Power Trench b. 1754, d. 31 Aug 1824
• Anne Power Trench b. 1755, d. 1835

Citations:

• [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 792. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• [S86] 2nd Earl of Clancarty Richard Le Poer Trench, Memoir of the Le Poer Trench Family (Dublin, Ireland: privately, 1874), page 13. Hereinafter cited as Memoir of the Le Poer Trench Family.
• [S86] 2nd Earl of Clancarty Richard Le Poer Trench, Memoir of the Le Poer Trench Family, page 8.
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 218. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

Biography

Richard Trench was born in 1710. He was the second son of Frederick Richard Trench and Elizabeth Eyre, daughter of John Eyre.

On 13 March 1732, Trench married Frances Power, only daughter of David Power and Elizabeth Keating. Richard and Francis had five daughters and six sons together. His third and eldest surviving son William was raised to the Peerage of Ireland.

Trench represented Banagher in the Irish House of Commons from 1735 to 1761. Subsequently and until his death, he held the office of Member of Parliament (MP Whig) for County Galway, the same constituency his father had represented.

He served as colonel of the Militia Dragoons of County Galway.

In 1757 he applied for and received letters patent for the right to hold annual fairs in Ballinasloe on May 17 and July 13. While Ballinasloe is now famous for its Great October Fair only, in the past the town also hosted fairs in the other months of the year, the May Fair and the July Wool Fair being the most important of these.

He lived at Garbally, Ballinasloe.

He died in 1768. He was buried in Ballinasloe.

Sources:

• http://thepeerage.com/p4874.htm#i48735
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Trench-12
• Richard Trench, wikipedia
• "Ballinasloe Town and Parish 1585-1855", by Rev Patrick K Egan, http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/history/chapter69.html

"[Richard] since 1734 sat in Parliament for the borough of Banagher and from 1761 to 1768 as a Knight of the Shire for County Galway. He married in 1732 Francis, only daughter of David Power of Cooreen and by her the Trench family acquired all the Power estates in the baronies of Leitrim, Dunkellin and Loughrea as well as the Keating estates in Kilkenny, Carlow and Dublin, which she inherited from her mother. The Power alliance was of great consequence to the Trench family, for in addition to the vast increase in wealth, it brought them ancient titles to Norman and Irish nobility. Her father, David Power of Coorheen was a descendant of the Norman Sir Geoffrey Le Poer of Dunisle in the County Cork and their Cromwellian grant in County Galway included some of the territory of the original grant in Kenmoy in the barony of Leitrim to Eustace Le Poer the Munster baron in 1301. The great-great-grandmother of Francis Power was the daughter of Cormac McCarthy, Viscount Muskerry, a descendant of Dermot McCarthy Mor, king of Munster and a sister of Donough, second Earl of Clancarty who was outlawed in the time of Charles II. On that slender connection the Earldom of Clancarty was regranted to the Trench family after the Union."