Viscount Trenchard, of Wolfeton in the County of Dorset, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1936 for Marshal of the Royal Air Force

Marshal of the Royal Air Force

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, Hugh Trenchard, 1st Baron Trenchard

Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard GCB OM GCVO DSO was a British officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force...

. He had already been created a Baronet, of Wolfeton in the County of Dorset, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1919 and Baron Trenchard, of Wolfeton in the County of Dorset, in 1930, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His second son, the second Viscount, held junior ministerial positions from 1979 to 1983 in the Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 administration of Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

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. the titles are held by the latter's son, the third Viscount, who succeeded in 1987. In 2004 he replaced the recently deceased Lord Vivian

Nicholas Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian

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 as one of the ninety elected hereditary peer

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s that are allowed to remain in the House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

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. Lord Trenchard sits on the Conservative

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 benches.

The family seat is Standon Lordship, near Ware, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

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Viscounts Trenchard (1936)

• Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
  Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
  Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard GCB OM GCVO DSO was a British officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force...
  
   (1873–1956)
• Thomas Trenchard, 2nd Viscount Trenchard
  Thomas Trenchard, 2nd Viscount Trenchard
  Thomas Trenchard, 2nd Viscount Trenchard was the second Viscount Trenchard and a junior minister from 1979 to 1983 in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government....
  
   (1923–1987)
• Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard
  Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard
  Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard DL is a British soldier and businessman. In 1987, he succeeded to his father's titles...
  
   (b. 1951)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Hon. Alexander Thomas Trenchard (b. 1978), who was jailed for 30 months on 3 February 2011 for defrauding his employer, Tesco, out of £355,000. His parents repaid the money.