Nicholas Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty
Nicholas Le Poer Trench, Richard Power, 9th Earl of Clancarty, 8th Marquess of Heusden ( born May 1, 1952) is a British politician and peer in the peerage of Ireland. He is one of the chosen Hereditary Peers who sit as Cross Bencher in the House of Lords. He is also the winner of the Dutch nobility title Markie van Heusden, who had been his ancestor Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, for his service as Ambassador to the Netherlands, awarded 1815.
Life and career
Trench was born the only son of Edward Ford Le Poer Trench Power (1917-1975), second son of the second marriage of William Frederick Le Poer Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty, and Jocelyn Louise Courteney († 1962). He has a sister who is younger than him, Caroline Jessica Mary ( born December 3, 1954). This is a painter and graphic artist.
He attended Ashford Grammar School in Ashford in the county of Middlesex and the Polytechnic Institute in Plymouth ( Plymouth Polytechnic ), which belongs to the University of Plymouth. Also studied in the United States at the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado and Boulder, Colorado.
Trench is a freelance artist. He worked as a painter, writer, translator and filmmaker. As an artist, he used the name Nick Trench. He runs a blog.
Trench presents his works since the 1980s on shows. In 2007 he had a solo exhibition at the Hepsibah Gallery in London. In 2010 he was involved in the group exhibition At Play ii at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell, Berkshire. In 2007, he presented at the exhibition HOME in the Penny School Gallery, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey his pictures and paintings in a double exhibition for the first time with his sister Caroline Le Poer Trench ( as an artist: Cally Trench ).
He is Secretary ( Secretary ) of Dysart Press Ltd, a media company, which has specialized in journalism and translation work.
Trench lives in London, is married and has one daughter.
Membership in the House of Lords
Trench belonged since the death of his childless uncle Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty ( 1911-1995 ), whose title he inherited, the House of Lords on. His seat he officially took on 24 May 1996 and delivered his inaugural address on 15 May 1996. In the upper house, he sits as a cross Bencher. His seat as he took a Viscount Clancarty, because this title is part of the Peerage of the United Kingdom, while the title Earl of Clancarty in the Peerage of Ireland heard and was not connected well before 1999, with a membership in the House of Lords.
Through the House of Lords Act 1999 ended his membership on 11 November 1999. Trench unsuccessful candidate in the election for one of the 28 seats for Cross Bencher. He was ranked 37 out of 79 candidates.
Four by-elections for incumbent Hereditary peers, he ran unsuccessfully; in two cases, he is number one for second place. On June 23, 2010 it was announced that he had the by-election following the death of Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, who died in April 2010 won. Trench took his seat on 1 July 2010.
When his political priorities he indicates on the official website of the House of Lords, arts and culture, public welfare and education. As states are of particular interest he calls France, Germany and the Netherlands.