Frederick Richard Thomas Trench Gascoigne Explained

Frederick Richard Thomas Trench Gascoigne
Term Start:1923
Term End:1924
Predecessor:Sir Algernon Freeman Firth, 2nd Baronet
Successor:Henry Whitworth
Birth Date:4 July 1851
Residence:Lotherton Hall
Craignish Castle
Parents:Frederick Charles Trench Gascoigne
Mary Isabella Oliver Gascoigne
Children:2, including Alvary Gascoigne
Relations:Richard Oliver Gascoigne (grandfather)
Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (grandson)
Rank:Colonel
Branch:Yorkshire Hussars
Battles:Anglo-Egyptian War
Second Boer War

Colonel Frederick Richard Thomas Trench Gascoigne DSO JP (4 July 1851 – 2 June 1937) was a British soldier and landowner.

Early life

He was born on 4 July 1851, the only son of Frederick Charles Trench Gascoigne JP, and his wife, the former Mary Isabella Oliver Gascoigne.[1]

His mother was the elder daughter and co-heir of Richard Oliver Gascoigne of Parlington Hall, Yorkshire and Castle Oliver, County Limerick. His aunt Elizabeth Oliver Gascoigne was the wife of Frederick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown.[2]

Career

Gascoigne was a captain in the Royal Horse Guards and served in the Egyptian War of 1884 to 1885. He was second-in-command and later commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in the Second Boer War in South Africa from 1900 to 1901, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1900. He was lieutenant-colonel and honorary colonel commanding the Yorkshire Hussars in 1903 and an honorary colonel in the British Army in 1904.

Colonel Gascoigne was a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, an officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, and a member of the Army and Navy Club, the Carlton Club and the Junior Carlton, the Yorkshire Club in York and the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes.[3] He was selected High Sheriff of Yorkshire from 1923 to 1924.[4]

Personal life

In 1892, he married Laura Gwendolen (1859–1949), daughter of Sir Douglas Galton and the former Marianne Nicholson. Through her mother Laura was the goddaughter and second cousin to Florence Nightingale.[5] Together, they had two children, a son and a daughter:[6]

The Gascoignes lived at Lotherton Hall, Aberford, Leeds (which he inherited from his aunt, Lady Ashtown, upon her death in February 1893), and Craignish Castle, Ardfern, Argyllshire. Trench Gascoigne died on 2 June 1937.[8] His widow died on 2 July 1949.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Burke . Bernard . A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire . 1869 . London : Harrison . 47 . 25 March 2021.
  2. Web site: Richard Oliver Gascoigne . parlington.co.uk . . 25 March 2021.
  3. Book: Fox-Davies . Arthur Charles . Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour . 1910 . T.C. & E.C. Jack . 1618 . 26 March 2021 . en.
  4. Web site: Col Frederick R. T. Trench-Gascoigne . parlington.co.uk . . 26 March 2021.
  5. Web site: Our Cousin Florence - Florence Nightingale and her family. www.visitleeds.co.uk. 2020-02-19. 12 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191212152435/https://www.visitleeds.co.uk/news/lotherton-hall-florence-nightingale-exhi.aspx. dead.
  6. Book: Society . Thoresby . The Publications of the Thoresby Society . 1908 . . 25 March 2021. 174 . en.
  7. Web site: Galton. 2011-09-09. The Life and Times of Florence Nightingale. en. 2020-02-19.
  8. Who Was Who 1929–1940, p. 498.
  9. Web site: Lotherton Hall. www.yorkshireguides.com. 2020-02-21.