William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty, 2nd Marquess of Heusden (21 September 1803 – 26 April 1872), styled Viscount Dunlo between 1805 and 1837, was an

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, as well a

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in the

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. He was educated at

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. Trench was born in Castleton,

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, Ireland the son of

Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, 1st Marquess of Heusden (19 May 1767 – 24 November 1837), styled The Honourable from 1797 to 1803 and then Viscount Dunlo to 1805, was an Anglo-Irish peer, a nobleman in the Dutch nobility, and ...

and Henrietta Margaret Staples. On 8 September 1832, he married Lady Sarah Juliana Butler. They had six children. * Richard Somerset Le Poer Trench, 4th Earl of Clancarty (13 January 1834 – 29 May 1891) married Lady Adeliza Georgiana Hervey *Major Hon. Frederick Le Poer Trench (10 February 1835 – 17 December 1913) married (1) Harriet Mary Trench (2) Catherine Simpson *Colonel William Le Poer Trench (17 June 1837 – 16 September 1920) married Harriet Maria Georgina Martins *Lady Anne Le Poer Trench (1839 – 12 March 1924) married Frederic Sydney Charles Trench * Power Henry Le Poer Trench (11 May 1841 – 30 April 1899) *Lady Sarah Emily Grace Le Poer Trench (6 December 1843 – 2 August 1875) married John Melville Hatchell.

References

*Lodge, Edmund, Anne Innes, Eliza Innes, and Maria Innes.
The Peerage of the British Empire As at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility: to Which Is Added a View of the Baronetage of the Three Kingdoms.
' London: Saunders and Otley, 1832. (p. 120) Accessed 8 March 2008
Sarah Emily Grace Le Poer Trench
Accessed 8 March 2008

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clancarty, William Trench, 3rd Earl Of 1803 births 1872 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Marquess of Heusden Nobility from County Galway

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Earls of Clancarty