Cosby Godolphin Trench

Cosby Godolphin Trench DL, JP (6 January 1844 – 9 December 1925), His elder brother, Frederick Sydney Charles Trench, was married to Lady Anne Le Poer Trench, and his sister, Harriette Mary Trench, was married to Hon. Frederick Le Poer Trench, both children of William Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty and Lady Sarah Juliana Butler (eldest daughter of Somerset Butler, 3rd Earl of Carrick). They spent much of the year at Castle Oliver.

Trench was educated at Eton College and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

In 1886, he was appointed High Sheriff of Tipperary.

Personal life On 19 June 1873, he married Maria Musgrave, the eldest daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave, 4th Baronet of Tourin and Frances Mary Yates (a daughter of John Ashton Yates MP for County Carlow). Together, they were the parents of four sons:

Charles Sadleir Musgrave Trench (1874–1958), a Capt. who married Helen Cowley Brown (d. 1937), fifth daughter of Robert Lidwill Brown of Clonboy, in 1914.