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'''Frederick Trench, 1st Baron Ashtown''' (17 September 1755 – 1 May 1840) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] politician.
He was the son of Frederick Trench and Mary (née Sadleir). The Trench family were of [[France|French]] descent. He was elected to represent [[Portarlington (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Portarlington]] from 1798 to the [[Act of Union, 1800|Act of Union]] in 1801. On 27 December 1800 he was raised to the [[Peerage of Ireland]] as '''Baron Ashtown''', of Moate in the County of Galway, with remainder to the heirs male of his father Frederick Trench. This was a so-called "Union peerage", a reward for Trench's support for the [[Act of Union 1800|Union]] between [[Ireland]] and [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]], which he had initially opposed. He had been elected for the [[Portarlington (UK Parliament constituency)|Portarlington]] constituency in the post-Union parliament at Westminster, but the creation of the peerage prevented him taking his seat and so he never sat in Westminster.<ref>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/constituencies/portarlington Constituencies 1790-1820: Portarlington], ''History of Parliament''</ref>
Lord Ashtown married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Robinson, in 1785. They had no children. He died in May 1840, aged 84, and was succeeded in the barony according to the special remainder by his nephew [[Frederick Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown|Frederick]]. Lady Ashtown died in 1844.
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| with2  = [[William Gregory (civil servant)|William Gregory]] 1800–1801
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