Ernest Crosbie Trench

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Ernest Frederic Crosbie Trench (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.[2] Anne of York, sister to Edward IV and Richard III was an ancestor of Ernest's mother.[3] Trench studied for a master of arts degree from Trinity College, Dublin before pursuing an engineering career. 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.[4] 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.[4] He was elected vice president of the institution in 1924 and served as its president from 1927-1928.[5]

In 1920 he was created a Commander 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 Engineering and Railway Staff Corps.[4]

He married Netta Taylor on 3 April 1895[2] and fathered five sons and one daughter.[1] He died in Marlborough, Wiltshire on 15 September 1960.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b The Peerage biography
  2. ^ a b Devon Ancestry
  3. ^ The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval (1907). The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Anne of Exeter Volume London, ISBN 0806314338
  4. ^ a b c ICE obituary
  5. ^ Watson, Garth (1988), The Civils, London: Thomas Telford Ltd, p. 252, ISBN 0-727-70392-7 
  6. ^ London Gazette: no. 42301, page 1978, 14 March 1961. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
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