Protestant Exiles from France/Book First - Chapter 11 - Section III
III. Earl of Clancarty.
Richard Trench, Esq., of Garbally (born 1710, died 1768), was a member of the Parliament of Ireland in 1761, representing county Galway. His wife, Miss Frances Power, whom he married in 1732, was the heiress of the wealthy families of Power and Keating, and the blood of the heir of the King of Cork, MacCarty-More, Earl of Clancarty, flowed in her veins; she also represented the Barons of Le Poer. The heir of Richard was William Power Keating Trench, Esq., a popular country gentleman, who represented the county of Galway in the Irish Parliament from 1768 to 1797. At the latter date (on 27th Nov.) he was transferred to the Upper House as Baron Kilconnel of Garbally, and was further promoted in the Peerage of Ireland, on 3d January 1801, as Viscount Dunlo, and Earl of Clancarty in the county of Cork. The earl died on 27th April 1805, having had (by his wife Anne, eldest daughter of Right Hon. Charles Gardiner and sister of Luke, first Viscount Mountjoy) seven sons and seven daughters. His heir, Richard Le Poer Trench, the second earl (born 1767, died 1837), was our ambassador at the Hague, and one of our representatives at the Congress of Vienna; his portrait appears in the historical picture of its members. He was elected M.P. for Rye in the British House of Commons in 1807 and 1812. He brought to his family the additional honours of peerages of the United Kingdom, and a hereditary seat in the House of Peers — receiving the title of Baron Trench in 1815, and of Viscount Clancarty in 1824; he also was offered and permitted to accept the title of Marquis of Heusden in the Netherlands. He married Henrietta Margaret, daughter of Right Hon. John Staples, and was the father of William Thomas, third Earl of Clancarty (born 1803, died 1872), an excellent and influential nobleman, and zealous Protestant. The present and fourth earl is Richard Somerset Le Poer Trench, Earl of Clancarty, eldest son of the third earl, by Lady Sarah Juliana Butler, daughter of Somerset Richard, third Earl of Carrick. The present earl was born on 13th January 1834, and married in 1866 Lady Adeliza Georgiana Hervey, daughter of Frederick William, second Marquis of Bristol; his heir apparent is William Frederick, Viscount Dunlo, born in 1868. The family motto for Le Poer is “Consilio et prudentia,” and for Trench, “Dieu pour la Tranche, qui contre?”