Frederick Trench (British Army officer)

General Sir Frederick William Trench KCH (1775 – 6 December 1859), was a British Army officer and Tory politician.

He was sent to Cádiz in 1811 during the Peninsular War until on 1 August he was promoted to major and appointed assistant quartermaster-general in the Kent district.

After his appoint as deputy quartermaster-general to the corps on 25 November 1813, he accompanied General Sir Thomas Graham to Holland in 1814 as a lieutenant-colonel.

[6] He sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Mitchell between 1806 and 1807,[7] for Dundalk between February and October 1812,[8] for Cambridge between 1819 and 1832[9] and for Scarborough between 1835 and 1847.

[10] Trench also proposed several "improvement schemes" in London, most notably The Embankment[11] (conceived to relieve traffic on the Strand and provide a pleasant riverside walk) but this was not completed until five years after he died[12] in Brighton on 6 December 1859.