school education, also in 1971. Personal life Trench married Margaret Gould on 18 August 1944. The couple had one daughter, Katherine Elizabeth (1956–2017). Trench was also a distant kinsman of the Barons Ashtown, and one of his distant relatives, Nigel Clive Cosby Trench, also worked in the Foreign Service and succeeded to the Barony of Ashtown in 1990. Trench died on 4 December 1988, aged 73. Offices and honours C.M.G., 1960 K.C.M.G., 1962 K.St.J., 1964 Honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Hong Kong, 1968 G.C.M.G., 1969 Governor of Hong Kong, 1964 to 1971 President of St. John Ambulance Brigade and Association in Dorset since 1972. Chairman, Dorset Area Health Authority from 1973 to 1982 Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset, 1977 The Trench Methadone Clinic and the David Trench Rehabilitation Clinic, both in Hong Kong, are named after him Ching Cheung Road in Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong is named in honour of him See also John James Cowperthwaite History of Hong Kong References Colonial Administrative Service officers High Commissioners for the Western Pacific 1915 births 1988 deaths Governors of Hong Kong Governors of the Solomon Islands David Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Royal Artillery officers British Army personnel of World War II British Militia officers Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Recipients of the Military Cross Foreign recipients of the Legion of Merit Knights of the Order of St John Deputy Lieutenants of Dorset People educated at Tonbridge School British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force officers People from Quetta 20th-century Hong Kong people 20th-century British politicians