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Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty

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British politician

The Right Honourable The Earl of Clancarty GCB GCH PC
Portrait byJoseph Paelinck, 1817

President of the Board of Trade
In office 29 September 1812 – 24 January 1818
Monarch	George III
Prime Minister	The Earl of Liverpool
Preceded by	The Earl Bathurst
Succeeded by	Hon. F. J. Robinson

Personal details
Born	(1767-05-19)19 May 1767
Died	24 November 1837(1837-11-24) (aged 70) Kinnegad,County Westmeath
Nationality	British
Political party	Tory
Spouse(s)	Henrietta Margaret Staples (c. 1770–1847)
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge

Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, 1st Marquess of HeusdenGCB GCH PC (19 May 1767 – 24 November 1837), styledThe Honourable from 1797 to 1803 and thenViscount Dunlo to 1805, was anAnglo-Irish peer, anobleman in theDutch nobility, and a diplomat. He was anIrish, and laterBritish, Member of Parliament and a supporter ofPitt. Additionally he was appointedPostmaster General of Ireland, and later, of the United Kingdom.

Background and education

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Clancarty was the son ofWilliam Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty and Anne, daughter ofCharles Gardiner and his seat wasGarbally Court inBallinasloe,East County Galway where he was associated with theGreat October Fair.^[1] His brother wasPower Le Poer Trench (1770–1839), archbishop ofTuam. He was educated atKimbolton School andSt John's College, Cambridge.^[2]

Political career

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Trench representedNewtown Limavady in theIrish House of Commons from 1796 to 1798. He sat further forCounty Galway from 1798 to a short time before theAct of Union, when he was replaced by"Humanity Dick" Martin.

He was credited with resolving various border disputes in Holland, Germany and Italy at theCongress of Vienna, 1814–1815, and in his role as Ambassador to the Netherlands. For his service as ambassador to The Hague, he was awarded the hereditary title ofMarquess of Heusden in thepeerage of The Netherlands on 8 July 1815^[3] byWilliam I of the Netherlands, following the defeat ofNapoleon in Brabant, in that same province's southern reaches. Trench was elected one of the 28 representative peers of Ireland on 16 December 1808. His seat in theHouse of Lords became hereditary when he was created Baron Trench (4 August 1815) and Viscount Clancarty (created 8 December 1823), in thePeerage of the United Kingdom, his older peerages being Irish peerages. He was aCommissioner for the Affairs of India andCustos Rotulorum of County Galway.

Postmaster General

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Between 1807 and 1809 Trench was one of the jointPostmasters General of Ireland^[4] and he was appointedPostmaster General of the United Kingdom being one of the last joint holders of that office from 1814 to 1816.^[5]

Family

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On 6 February 1796 he married Henrietta Margaret Staples, daughter ofJohn Staples and Harriet Conolly. They had the following children:

Lady Lucy Le Poer Trench (d. 1839), married Robert Maxwell
Lady Louisa Augusta Anne Le Poer Trench (b. 23 December 1796, d. 7 February 1881), married Reverend William Le Poer Trench
Lady Harriet Margaret Le Poer Trench (b. 13 October 1799, d. 1885), marriedThomas Kavanagh "the MacMurrough", a descendant ofArt mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh
Lady Emily Florinda Le Poer Trench (b. 7 November 1800), married Giovanni Cossiria
Lady Frances Power Le Poer Trench (b. 22 January 1802, d. 28 December 1804)
William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty (b 21 September 1803, d. 26 April 1872), marriedLady Sarah Juliana Butler, daughter ofSomerset Richard Butler, 3rd Earl of Carrick
Hon. Richard John Le Poer Trench (b. 1805)
Commander Hon. Frederick Robert Le Poer Trench (b. 23 July 1808, d. April 1867), married Catherine Maria Thompson

Ancestry

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Ancestors of Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty

Frederick Trench of Garbally

Colonel Frederick Trench of Garbally

Elizabeth Warburton

Colonel Richard Trench of Garbally

John Eyre of Eyre Court orEyrecourt Castle

Elizabeth Eyre

Margery Preston

William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty

John Power

David Power of Coorheen,Loughrea

Sarah Bowen

Frances Power

William Keating of Lissenhall

Elizabeth Keating

Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty

Rt HonLuke Gardiner

Rt HonCharles Gardiner of Dublin

Hon. Alexander Stewart

Anne Stewart

Mary Tighe

Anne Gardiner

Samuel Norman

Robert Norman

Elizabeth Gage

Florinda Norman

John Bolton

Sarah Bolton

References

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^Lally, Barry (2015)."Story of the Great October Fair". Ballinasloe Fair. Archived from the original on 30 September 2014. Retrieved16 July 2015.
^"Trench, Richard Power Keating (TRNC785RP)".A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^"Wet op Adeldom 1994; Netherlands' Law of Nobility, Article 1" (in Dutch). Hoge Raad van Adel. 1994. Retrieved5 December 2017.
^Haydn, Joseph (1851).The Book of Dignities. London: Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans. pp. 461.
^Thorne, R. G., ed. (21 April 2006)."TRENCH, Hon. Richard (1767–1837), of Garbally, Co. Galway".The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790–1820. Boydell & Brewer.ISBN 978-043-6521-010. Retrieved4 October 2013.

Urban, Sylvanus. "The Earl of Clancarty."The Gentleman's Magazine. Obituary Vol. IX, January to June, London: William Pickering; John Bowyer Nickols and Son, 1838. (pp. 93–94)googlebooks Retrieved 17 October 2008
Lodge, Edmund.The Peerage of the British Empire As at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility, by Edmund Lodge, to Which Is Added a View of the Baronetage of the Three Kingdoms. London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. (p. 96)googlebooks Accessed 9 March 2008

External links

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Hansard 1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Clancarty

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by John Staples Hugh Carncross	Member of Parliament forNewtown Limavady 1796–1798 With:Hugh Carncross	Succeeded by Viscount Castlereagh Hugh Carncross
Preceded by William Power Keating Trench Joseph Henry Blake	Member of Parliament forCounty Galway 1797–1800 With:Joseph Henry Blake	Succeeded by Richard Martin Joseph Henry Blake
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament forCounty Galway 1801 – 1805 With:Richard Martin	Succeeded by Denis Bowes Daly Richard Martin
Preceded by Patrick Crauford Bruce Michael Angelo Taylor	Member of Parliament forRye May 1807 – Jul 1807 With:Sir John Nicholl	Succeeded by Sir William Elford, Bt Stephen Lushington
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Clanricarde	Representative peer for Ireland 1808–1837	Succeeded by The Lord Clonbrock
Government offices
Preceded by The Earl Bathurst	Master of the Mint 1812–1814	Succeeded by Hon. William Wellesley-Pole
Preceded by The Earl Bathurst	President of the Board of Trade 1812–1818	Succeeded by Hon. F. J. Robinson
Preceded by The Earl of Sandwich	Postmaster General 1814–1816	Succeeded by The Marquess of Salisbury
Diplomatic posts
Unknown	British Ambassador to the Netherlands 1813–1815	Succeeded by Sir Charles Stuart
Preceded by Sir Charles Stuart	British Ambassador to the Netherlands 1815–1823	Unknown
Dutch nobility
New creation	Marquess of Heusden 1815–1837	Succeeded by William Thomas Le Poer Trench
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by William Power Keating Trench	Earl of Clancarty 2nd creation 1805–1837	Succeeded by William Thomas Le Poer Trench
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Viscount Clancarty 1823–1837	Succeeded by William Thomas Le Poer Trench
New creation	Baron Trench 1815–1837	Succeeded by William Thomas Le Poer Trench

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