Frederick Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown
Frederick Oliver Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown was an Anglo-Irish landowner and opponent of the United Irish League.
Frederick Oliver Trench was the eldest son of Frederick Sydney Charles Trench and Anne Le Poer Trench. 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 County Galway estate was located in Killimordaly. According to valuation records he was landlord for the following townlands: Caraunbeg, Caraunmore, Creevagh, Dooghloon, Gortnaboha and Island.
Ashtown was educated at Eton College. On 11 January 1894, he married Violet Grace Cosby, the youngest daughter of Col. Robert Ashworth Godolphin Cosby of Stradbally Hall, Queen's County. Ashtown was a hard-line Unionist; in 1906-10 he edited a monthly publication, Grievences from Ireland, which denounced all political expressions of Irish nationalism as treasonable. His hunting lodge at Ballymacarbry, County Waterford, was damaged by bombs and arson in 1907 and destroyed by the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence.
He was elected an Irish representative peer in 1908. He died in 1946.
