Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown

Nigel Clive Cosby Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown, KCMG (27 October 1916 – 6 March 2010) was a British diplomat.

Trench was the son of son of Clive Newcome Trench and Kathleen Maud Marion McIvor. He 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 (1969–71) and to Portugal (1974–76).

Honours

In 1976 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

Personal life

He married Marcelle Catherine Clotterbooke Patijn van Kloetinge in 1939, with whom he had one son, Roderick Trench, 8th Baron Ashtown. He succeeded a cousin as Baron Ashtown in 1990. His wife died in 1994. Lord Ashtown then married Dorothea Mary Elizabeth Minchin, former wife of Hans Heinrich XVII, 4th Fürst von Pleß, in 1997.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Christopher Oliver Trench	Baron Ashtown 1990–2010	Succeeded by Roderick Trench

References

• 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.