| 词条 | Ernest Crosbie Trench |
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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{{see also|Nominative determinism}}References1. ^1 The Peerage biography {{s-start}}{{s-npo|pro}}{{s-bef2. ^The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval (1907). [https://books.google.com/books?id=0aUD4NqGYqAC&printsec=frontcover The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Anne of Exeter Volume] London, {{ISBN|0-8063-1433-8}} 3. ^1 2 ICE obituary 4. ^{{Citation | first = Garth | last = Watson | title = The Civils | publisher = London: Thomas Telford Ltd | page = 252 | year = 1988 | isbn = 0-7277-0392-7}} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33754 |date=18 September 1931 |page=6039 }} 6. ^{{London Gazette|issue=42301|page=1978|date=14 March 1961}} | before = Frederick Palmer}}{{s-ttl | title = President of the Institution of Civil Engineers | years = November 1927 – November 1928}}{{s-aft | after = Brodie Henderson}}{{end}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Trench, Ernest}}{{civil-engineering-stub}} 8 : 1869 births|1960 deaths|British civil engineers|Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers|Presidents of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers|People educated at Monkton Combe School|Alumni of Trinity College Dublin|Engineer and Railway Staff Corps officers |
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