The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Trench, Hon. Robert Le Poer
Trench, Hon. Robert Le Poer, late Attorney-General of Victoria, is the third son of the late Ven. Charles Le Poer Trench, D.D., of Ballinasloe, co. Galway, Archdeacon of Ardagh, and grandson of the first Earl of Clancarty. He entered as a student of the Middle Temple in May 1839, and was called to the Bar in June 1842. Having emigrated to Victoria, he was clerk of petty sessions at Kilmore, and afterwards at Ballarat. In 1855 he was admitted to the Victorian Bar, and quickly obtained a large practice, especially in mining cases. Though he never entered parliament he was Attorney-General in the first Berry Government from August to Oct. 1875, and in Mr. (now Sir) Graham Berry's second Administration, from May 1877 to March 1878, when he was appointed a Commissioner of Land Tax, and a County Court Judge in April 1880. Mr. Trench, who was appointed Q.C. in 1878, subsequently retired on a pension.