Cosby Godolphin Trench

Cosby Godolphin Trench

Cosby Godolphin Trench DL, JP (6 January 1844 – 9 December 1925),[1] styled The Honourable from 1855, was a British soldier and magistrate.

He was the second son of Frederick Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown and his first wife Harriet Georgiana Cosby, youngest daughter of Thomas Cosby.[2] Trench was educated at Eton College and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[3] He entered the British Army as cornet in the 1st Dragoons in 1863, was promoted to captain in 1871 and retired five years later.[4] In 1886, he was appointed High Sheriff of Tipperary.[3] He was Justice of the Peace for County Waterford as well as County Tipperary and represented the latter also as Deputy Lieutenant.[3]

On 19 June 1873, he married Maria Musgrave, daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave, 4th Baronet, and had by her four sons.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "ThePeerage - Hon. Cosby Godolphin Trench". http://www.thepeerage.com/p3071.htm#i30701. Retrieved 14 February 2007. 
  2. ^ Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (28th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. pp. 28. 
  3. ^ a b c "Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society - Families of King's County". http://www.offalyhistory.com/articles/105/1/Families-of-King039s-County/Page1.html. Retrieved 9 August 2009. 
  4. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial families. Edinburgh: Grange Publishing Works. pp. 724.