Frederick Trench (MP for Galway)

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Frederick Richard Trench (1681 – 3 October 1752)[1] was an Irish politician.

He was the eldest son of Frederick Trench and his wife Elizabeth Warburton, daughter of Richard Warburton, a Member of Parliament for Ballyshannon.[2] Trench was appointed High Sheriff of County Galway in 1703[3] and colonel of the Galway Militia.[2] He sat for Galway County in the Irish House of Commons from 1715 until his death in 1752.[4]

On 7 September 1703, he married Elizabeth Eyre, daughter of John Eyre.[2] They had ten children, four sons and six daughters.[2] His second son Richard represented the same constituency and was ancestor of the Earls of Clancarty.[5]

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Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Galway County
1715–1752
With: Edward Ormsby 1715–1727
John Eyre 1727–1745
Hon. Thomas Bermingham 1745–1750
George Warburton 1750–1752
Succeeded by
Charles Daly
Robert French