Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown

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

life and career

Trench was born to Clive Newcome Trench and Kathleen Maud Marion McIvor. Trench attended Eton College and Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge . From 1940 to 1946 he served in the British Army . During World War II he was a major in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and was mentioned in Despatches for his services .

On May 30, 1946, he entered the diplomatic service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom , of which he was a member for thirty years until 1976. Trench began his diplomatic career from 1946 to 1949 as the embassy secretary in Lisbon . In 1952 he was posted to the British Embassy in Lima and worked there as Commerce Secretary . In 1955 he returned to Great Britain. In 1961 he was appointed Counselor ( Counselor promoted), and until 1963 at the Embassy in Tokyo , most recently with the rank of "Head of Chancery." From 1963 to 1967 he was counselor in Washington . From 1967 to 1969 he held the office of Counselor to the Cabinet Office . He was ambassador to Seoul from 1969 to 1971 . Between 1971 and 1973 he was Assistant Under-Secretary of the Civil Service Selection Board . From 1974 to 1976 he was ambassador to Portugal .

In 1966 he became Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG). In 1976 he became Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. In retirement he was a member of selection committees for the police , prisons and fire departments . He had ties with Portugal and South Korea and was eventually awarded the Korean Order of Merit .

Private

On December 1, 1939, he married Marcelle Catherine Clotterbooke Patijn van Kloetinge . Marcelle Trench died in July 1994. They had a son, Roderick Trench, 8th Baron Ashtown , who was born in 1944. On April 27, 1990 Nigel Trench inherited the title of Baron Ashtown from his cousin Christopher Oliver Trench, 6th Baron Ashtown , who died unmarried and childless.

After the death of his wife, Trench married Dorothea Mary Elizabeth Minchin (* 1928) on December 17, 1997, the former wife of Hans Heinrich XVII., 4th Prince of Pless. They lived in the London borough of Kensington .

After a fall, he spent his final years in a wheelchair . Trench died on March 6, 2010 at the age of 93 in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London . The cremation ceremony took place on March 19, 2010 at the Mortlake Crematorium in London.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The International Year Book and Statemen's Who's Who, 1983, p. 688
  2. ^ The Foreign office list and diplomatic and consular year book 1960, p. 395
  3. ↑ The Foreign office list and diplomatic and consular year book 1963, p. 412
  4. ↑ Lord Ashtown: diplomat , obituary in The Times, March 19, 2010
  5. ↑ Sir Nigel Clive Cosby TRENCH KCMG The Times, March 11, 2010
predecessor Office successor
Christopher Trench Baron Ashtown
1990-2010 		Roderick Trench
personal data
SURNAME Trench, Nigel, 7th Baron Ashtown
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trench, Sir Nigel Clive Cosby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1916
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2010
Place of death London