Frederick Trench (MP for Galway)
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Frederick Richard Trench (1681 – 3 October 1752)[1] was an Irish politician.
He was the eldest son of Frederick Trench and his wife Elizabeth Warburton, daughter of Richard Warburton, a Member of Parliament for Ballyshannon.[2] Trench was appointed High Sheriff of County Galway in 1703[3] and colonel of the Galway Militia.[2] He sat for County Galway in the Irish House of Commons from 1715 until his death in 1752.[4]
On 7 September 1703, he married Elizabeth Eyre, daughter of John Eyre.[2] They had ten children, four sons and six daughters.[2] His second son Richard represented the same constituency and was ancestor of the Earls of Clancarty.[5]