Nicholas Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty

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The Earl of Clancarty
Official portrait of The Earl of Clancarty crop 2.jpg
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
29 March 1996 11 November 1999
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
sitting as Viscount Clancarty
2010–present
Incumbent
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Earl of Clancarty
2nd creation
1995–present
Incumbent
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Clancarty
1995–present
Member of the House of Lords
(1996–1999)
Incumbent
Baron Trench
1995–present
Dutch nobility
Preceded by Marquess of Heusden
1995–present
Incumbent