Ernest Crosbie Trench

Ernest Crosbie Trench

Ernest Frederic Crosbie Trench CBE, TD (6 August 1869 – 15 September 1960) was a British civil engineer. [http://www.thepeerage.com/p3977.htm The Peerage biography] ]

Ernest was born on 6 August 1869 to George Frederic Trench and Frances Charlotte Talbot Crosbie. [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gregramstedt&id=I4037 Devon Ancestry] ] Anne of York, sister to Edward IV and Richard III was an ancestor of Ernest's mother.The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval (1907). [http://books.google.com/books?id=0aUD4NqGYqAC&printsec=frontcover "The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Anne of Exeter Volume"] London, ISBN 0806314338] Trench studied for a master of arts degree from Trinity College, Dublin before pursuing an engineering career. He worked primarily as a railway engineer and in 1923 he was appointed as the chief engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, retiring on 1 April 1930. [http://jisc.iceknowledge.com/ArticleView.aspx?doi=10.1680/iicep.1960.11592 ICE obituary] ] He became involved in the Institution of Civil Engineers as an associate member in 1897, progressing to a full membership in 1904, he was first elected to the council in 1915 and would serve on it for the next seventeen years. [http://jisc.iceknowledge.com/ArticleView.aspx?doi=10.1680/iicep.1960.11592 ICE obituary] ] He was elected vice president of the institution in 1924 and served as its president from 1927-1928.Citation | first = Garth | last = Watson| title = The Civils | publisher = London: Thomas Telford Ltd | page = 252
year = 1988 | isbn = 0-727-70392-7]

In 1920 he was created a Commander of the British Empire for "services rendered in connexion with 1914-18 war" and in 1931 received the Territorial Decoration for service as a volunteer Colonel in the Engineering and Railway Staff Corps.

He married Netta Taylor on 3 April 1895 and fathered five sons and one daughter. He died in Marlborough, Wiltshire on 15 September 1960. [LondonGazette|issue=42301|startpage=1978|date=14 March 1961|accessdate=2008-05-08]

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