Ernest Crosbie Trench

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

References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 ICE obituary
  4. ↑ Watson, Garth (1988), The Civils, London: Thomas Telford Ltd, p. 252, ISBN 0-7277-0392-7
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 33754. p. 6039. 18 September 1931. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 42301. p. 1978. 14 March 1961. Retrieved 8 May 2008.
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by
Frederick Palmer		 President of the Institution of Civil Engineers
November 1927 – November 1928 		Succeeded by
Brodie Henderson


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, April 04, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.