Cosby Godolphin Trench DL, JP (6 January 1844 – 9 December 1925),[1] styled "the Honourable" from 1855, was a British soldier and magistrate.
[3] After his mother's death in 1845, his father married Elizabeth Oliver Gascoigne (the second daughter of Richard Oliver Gascoigne, of Parlington Hall and Mary Turner, a daughter of Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Kirkleatham).
[6] He entered the British Army as cornet in the 1st Dragoons in 1863, was promoted to captain in 1871 and retired five years later.
[6] 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).
After his wife's death in 1994, the 7th Baron married Dorothea Mary Elizabeth (née Minchin) von Pless (the former wife of Hans Heinrich XVII Wilhelm Albert Eduard, 4th Prince of Pless and a daughter of Lt.-Col. Richard George Edward Minchin), in 1997.