Frederic Richard Thomas Trench Gascoigne
Colonel Frederic Richard Thomas Trench Gascoigne DSO was a British soldier and landowner.Biography
He was the only son of Frederic Charles Trench Gascoigne JP, and his wife Mary Isabella, the elder daughter and co-heir of Richard Oliver Gascoigne of Parlington Hall, Yorkshire and Castle Oliver, County Limerick. In 1892 he married Laura Gwendolen, daughter of Sir Douglas Galton; they had two children, a son and a daughter. The Gascoignes lived at Lotherton Hall, Aberford, Leeds, and Craignish Castle, Ardfern, Argyllshire.
Gascoigne was a captain in the Royal Horse Guards and served in the Egyptian War of 1884 to 1885. He was second-in-command and later commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War from 1900 to 1901, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1900. He was lieutenant-colonel and honorary colonel commanding the Yorkshire Hussars in 1903 and an honorary colonel in the Army in 1904. Colonel Gascoigne was a Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, an officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, and a member of the Army and Navy Club, the Carlton Club and the Junior Carlton, the Yorkshire Club in York and the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes.
