Background
He was the son of Frederick Trench and Mary (née Sadleir).
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Frederick Trench
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The Trench family were of French descent. He was elected to represent Portarlington from 1798 to the Acting of Union in 1801. On 27 December 1800 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Ashtown, of Moate in the County of Galway, with remainder to the heirs male of his father Frederick Trench.
This was a so-called "Union peerage", a reward for Trench"s support for the Union between Ireland and Great Britain, which he had initially opposed.
He had been elected for the Portarlington constituency in the post-Union parliament at Westminster, but the creation of the peerage prevented him taking his seat and so he never sat in Westminster. Lord Ashtown married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Robinson, in 1785.
They had no children. Lady Ashtown died in 1844.
