Frederick Oliver Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown (2 February 1868 – 20 March 1946) was an

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landowner and opponent of the

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. Frederick Oliver Trench was the eldest son of Frederick Sydney Charles Trench (heir apparent to the 2nd Lord Ashtown) and Anne Le Poer Trench (eldest daughter of the 3rd Earl of Clancarty of

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). At the age of twelve, he became the 3rd Baron Ashtown and inherited a vast estate and reputedly over a million pounds. Some of his

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estate was located in

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. According to valuation records he was landlord for the following townlands: Caraunbeg, Caraunmore, Creevagh, Dooghloon, Gortnaboha and Island. Ashtown was educated at

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. On 11 January 1894, he married Violet Grace Cosby, the youngest daughter of Col. Robert Ashworth Godolphin Cosby of

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, Queen's County. Ashtown was a hard-line Unionist; in 1906-10 he edited a monthly publication, ''Grievances from Ireland'', which denounced all political expressions of Irish nationalism as treasonable. His hunting lodge at

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, County Waterford, was damaged by bombs and arson in 1907 and destroyed by the

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during the

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.; Article in Daily Sketch from 1924 provides limited detail of appearance in Dublin Magistrates Court when bail refused and committed on charges "when two boys gave evidence". No further detail. Reference also found online to Bankruptcy in 1912 and "exclusion from Irish Peerage". Date unspecified. He had been elected an

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in 1908. He died in 1946.

References

* Kieran Jordan (ed.), ''Kiltullagh Killimordaly As the Centuries Passed: A History from 1500-1900'', Kiltullagh/Killimordaly Historical Society (2000), 1868 births 1946 deaths Frederick 3 Politicians from County Galway People educated at Eton College Irish representative peers

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