Colonel Frederic Richard Thomas Trench Gascoigne DSO JP (4 July 1851 – 2 June 1937) was a British soldier and landowner.

Early life

He was born on 4 July 1851, the only son of Frederic Charles Trench Gascoigne JP, and his wife, the former Mary Isabella Oliver Gascoigne. His mother was the elder daughter and co-heir of

Richard Oliver Gascoigne Richard Philip Oliver (1763 – 14 April 1843), later known as Richard Oliver Gascoigne, was an Irish landowner at Castle Oliver in County Limerick and Parlington Hall in Yorkshire. Early life He was the eldest surviving son of Isabella Sarah (n ...

Parlington Hall Parlington Hall was the seat of the Gascoigne family, Aberford near Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. The Parlington estate contains a number of features: the grade II* listed Triumphal Arch, designed by Thomas Leverton and built around the end ...

, Yorkshire and

Castle Oliver Castle Oliver (also ''Clonodfoy'') is a Victorian castle in the south part of County Limerick, Ireland. Built for entertaining rather than for defense, it has a ballroom, drawing room, library, morning room, dining room and hall which feature h ...

, County Limerick. His aunt Elizabeth Oliver Gascoigne was the wife of

Frederick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown Frederick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown DL (25 December 1804 – 12 September 1880) was an Irish peer and magistrate. Early life He was son of Francis Trench and his wife Mary Mason, second daughter of Henry Mason, and nephew to Frederic ...

Career

Gascoigne was a captain in the

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and served in the

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of 1884 to 1885. He was second-in-command and later commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion

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in the

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from 1900 to 1901, and was awarded the

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in 1900. He was lieutenant-colonel and honorary colonel commanding the

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in 1903 and an honorary colonel in the

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in 1904. Colonel Gascoigne was a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, an officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, and a member of the

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and the Junior Carlton, the Yorkshire Club in York and the

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in Cowes. He was selected

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from 1923 to 1924.

Personal life

In 1892, he married Laura Gwendolen (1859–1949), daughter of Sir

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and the former Marianne Nicholson. Through her mother Laura was the goddaughter and second cousin to

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. Together, they had two children, a son and a daughter: * Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne (1893–1970), who served as the British Political Representative to Japan from 1946 to 1951; he married Sylvia Wilder, daughter of Brig.-Gen.

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, in 1916. * Cynthia Mary Trench-Gascoigne (1898–1990), who married Arthur Fitzgerald Sandys Hill, 6th Baron Sandys. * Edward Oliver Trench Gascoigne (1896–1896), who died as an infant. The Gascoignes lived at

Lotherton Hall Lotherton Hall is a country house near Aberford, West Yorkshire, England. It lies a short distance from the A1(M) motorway, equidistant between London and Edinburgh. It is one of nine sites in the Leeds Museums & Galleries group. There has bee ...

, Aberford, Leeds (which he inherited from his aunt, Lady Ashtown, upon her death in February 1893), and

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, Ardfern, Argyllshire. Trench Gascoigne died on 2 June 1937.''

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1929–1940'', p. 498. His widow died on 2 July 1949.

References

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