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Ernest Frederic Crosbie Trench CBE, TD (6 August 1869 – 15 September 1960) was a British civil engineer.[1]

Ernest was born on 6 August 1869 to George Frederic Trench and Frances Charlotte Talbot Crosbie. Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, sister to Edward IV and Richard III was an ancestor of Ernest's mother.[2] He was educated at Monkton Combe School and at Lausanne before studying for a Master of Arts degree from Trinity College, Dublin. He worked primarily as a railway engineer and in 1923 he was appointed as the chief engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, retiring on 1 April 1930.[3] He became involved in the Institution of Civil Engineers as an associate member in 1897, progressing to a full membership in 1904, he was first elected to the council in 1915 and would serve on it for the next seventeen years.[3] He was elected vice president of the institution in 1924 and served as its president from 1927-1928.[4]

In 1920 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "services rendered in connexion with 1914-18 war" and in 1931 received the Territorial Decoration for service as a volunteer Colonel in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps.[3][5]

He married Netta Taylor on 3 April 1895 and fathered five sons and one daughter.[1] He died in Marlborough, Wiltshire on 15 September 1960.[6]

See also

See also: Nominative determinism

References

  1. ^ a b The Peerage biography
  2. ^ The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval (1907). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Anne of Exeter Volume London, ISBN 0-8063-1433-8
  3. ^ a b c ICE obituary
  4. ^ Watson, Garth (1988), The Civils, London: Thomas Telford Ltd, p. 252, ISBN 0-7277-0392-7
  5. ^ "No. 33754". The London Gazette. 18 September 1931.
  6. ^ "No. 42301". The London Gazette. 14 March 1961.
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Preceded by President of the Institution of Civil Engineers
November 1927 – November 1928 		Succeeded by


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