Sir Frederick William Trench

(1777 c.-1859)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Trench, F. W. (Frederick William), Sir, 1775-1859 NRA: Trench Sir Frederick William (1775-1859) Knight General DNB: Trench, Sir Frederick William (c.1777–1859), army officer and politician LBT ID: FrTrenc1859 VIAF ID: 30889492 LOC ID: n82125252	B/BAP: 1777 DIED: 1859-12-06
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Irish military officer and aide-de-camp to George IV; he was a Tory MP for St. Michael (1807-12), Dundalk (1812-18), Cambridge (1819-32), and Scarborough (1835-47). He planned the Thames Embankment.
REFERENCES TO Sir Frederick William Trench: John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 17 February 1841 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 6 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 18: 1837-43