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William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty

William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty

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William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty was born on 23 June 1741.1,3 He was the son of Richard Trench and Frances Power.1 He married Anne Gardiner, daughter of Rt. Hon. Charles Gardiner and Florinda Norman, on 30 October 1762.1 He died on 27 April 1805 at age 63 at IrelandG.4

He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for County Galway [Ireland] between 1768 and 1797.1 He gained the rank of Captain in the Colonel Bagshaw's Regiment of Foot.3 He held the office of Sheriff of County Kilkenny in 1777.1 He was Colonel of the 1st Connaught Provincial Regiment between 1781 and 1783.5 He was created 1st Baron Kilconnel of Garbally, co. Galway [Ireland] on 25 November 1797.1 He was created 1st Viscount Dunlo of Dunlo and Ballinasloe, in the Counties of Galway and Roscommon [Ireland] on 3 January 1801.1 He was created 1st Earl Clancarty, co. Cork [Ireland] on 11 February 1803

Citations:

  • S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 792. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
  • [S3409] Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Penancoet Family."
  • [S86] 2nd Earl of Clancarty Richard Le Poer Trench, Memoir of the Le Poer Trench Family (Dublin, Ireland: privately, 1874), page 20. Hereinafter cited as Memoir of the Le Poer Trench Family.
  • [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.
  • [S86] 2nd Earl of Clancarty Richard Le Poer Trench, Memoir of the Le Poer Trench Family, page 21.
  • [S37] BP2003. [S37]
  • [S2392] Letter from Lucy Trench (London, U.K.) to Darryl Roger Lundy, 7 August 2007; unknown repository (unknown repository address).
  • [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 219.
  • [S86] 2nd Earl of Clancarty Richard Le Poer Trench, Memoir of the Le Poer Trench Family, page 26.
  • [S86] 2nd Earl of Clancarty Richard Le Poer Trench, Memoir of the Le Poer Trench Family, page 27.