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Nigel Clive Cosby Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown




Trench was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge .

A major in the King's Royal Rifle Corps during World War II , after the war Nigel Trench spent thirty years in the Foreign Service of the United Kingdom , eventually serving as Ambassador to the Republic Of Korea ( 1969 - 1971 ) and to Portugal ( 1974 - 1976 ). In 1976 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order Of St. Michael And St. George .

The son of Clive Newcombe Trench and Kathleen Maud Marion McIvor, Trench married Marcelle Catherine van Kloetinge in 1939, with whom he had one son, Roderick. His wife died in 1994 and Lord Ashtown then married Dorothea Mary Elizabeth Minchin, former wife of Hans Heinrich XVII, 4th Fürst Von Pleß , in 1997.


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  • Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 123.