Power Henry Le Poer Trench Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	The Honourable
Power Henry Le Poer Trench
Office:	British Minister to Japan
Term Start:	1894
Term End:	1895
Predecessor:	Hugh Fraser
Successor:	Sir Ernest Mason Satow
Primeminister:	The Earl of Rosebery
Birth Date:	11 May 1841
Nationality:	British
Father:	William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty
Mother:	Lady Sarah Juliana Butler

Power Henry Le Poer Trench (11 May 1841 – 30 April 1899) was a British diplomat.^[1]

Trench was the son of William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty and Lady Sarah Juliana Butler.^[2]

Career

Trench was Secretary of the British Embassy in Berlin between 1888 and 1893.^[2]

In Mexico, he was the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary between 1893 and 1894.^[2]

He was the British Minister in Tokyo in 1894-1895.^[3]

See also

• List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Japan
• Anglo-Japanese relations

References

• Ian Nish. (2004). British Envoys in Japan 1859-1972. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental. ; OCLC 249167170

External links

• • UK in Japan, Chronology of Heads of Mission

Notes and References

1. Ian Nish. (2004). British Envoys in Japan 1859-1972, pp. 72-77.
2. Web site: Lundy . Darryl . Power Henry Le Poer Trench, ID #48807 . The Peerage.
3. The first British Ambassador to Japan was appointed in 1905. Before 1905, the senior British diplomat had different titles: (a) Consul-General and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, which is a rank just below Ambassador.