Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty

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The 2nd Earl of Clancarty.

Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty GCB, GCH, PC (19 May 1767 – 24 November 1837), was a diplomat. He was an Irish, and later British, MP and a supporter of Pitt. He was the son of William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty and Anne Gardiner. On 6 February 1796 he married Henrietta Margaret Staples, daughter of John Staples and Ann Conolly. Richard and Henrietta had the following children:

Lady Lucy Le Poer Trench (died in 1839) married Robert Maxwell
Lady Louisa Augusta Anne Le Poer Trench (23 December 1796 – 7 February 1881) married Reverend William Le Poer Trench
Lady Harriete Margaret Le Poer Trench 13 October 1799 –1885) married Thomas Kavanagh, The MacMorrough
Lady Emily Florinda Le Poer Trench (born on 7 November 1800) married Giovanni Cossiria
Lady Frances Power Le Poer Trench (22 January 1802 – 28 December 1804)
William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty (21 September 1803 – 26 April 1872) married Lady Sarah Juliana Butler
Richard John Le Poer Trench (born 1805)
Commander Frederick Robert Le Poer Trench (23 July 1808 – April, 1867) married Catherine Maria Thompson

Richard was credited with resolving various border disputes in Holland, Germany and Italy at the Congress of Vienna, 1814–15, and in his role as Ambassador to the Netherlands. For his service as ambassador to The Hague, he was awarded the hereditary title of Marquess van Heusden (1815) in the peerage of The Netherlands.

In order to sit in the House of Lords he was Baron Trench (created 4 August 1815) and Viscount Clancarty (created 8 December 1823), in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, his older peerages being Irish peerages.

He was a Commissioner for the Affairs of India.

His seat was Garbally Court in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland.

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thepeerage.com Accessed March 9, 2008
Lodge, Edmund. The Peerage of the British Empire As at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility, by Edmund Lodge, to Which Is Added a View of the Baronetage of the Three Kingdoms. London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. (p. 96) googlebooks Accessed March 9, 2008

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by '	Member of Parliament for Newtown Limavady 1796–1797	Succeeded by '
Preceded by William Power Keating Trench	Member of Parliament for County Galway 1797–1800	Succeeded by Parliament abolished
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New constituency	Member of Parliament for County Galway 1801–1805	Succeeded by Denis Bowes Daly
Preceded by Michael Angelo Taylor	Member of Parliament for Rye 1807	Succeeded by Stephen Lushington
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Clanricarde	Representative peer for Ireland 1808–1837	Succeeded by The Lord Clonbrock
Government offices
Preceded by The Earl Bathurst	President of the Board of Trade 1812–1818	Succeeded by Frederick John Robinson
Preceded by The Earl Bathurst	Master of the Mint 1812–1814	Succeeded by William Wellesley-Pole
Preceded by The Earl of Sandwich	Postmaster General 1814–1816	Succeeded by The Marquess of Salisbury
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Unknown	British Ambassador to the Netherlands 1813–1815	Succeeded by Sir Charles Stuart
Preceded by Sir Charles Stuart	British Ambassador to the Netherlands 1815–1823	Succeeded by Unknown
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by William Power Keating Trench	Earl of Clancarty 1805–1837	Succeeded by William Thomas Le Poer Trench
Dutch nobility
Preceded by New Creation	Marquess van Heusden 1815–1837	Succeeded by William Thomas Le Poer Trench