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Thomas Weldon Trench was born on 11 Feb 1833. He was the eldest son of William Steuart Trench and Elizabeth Susanna Townsend. Thomas Weldon was installed by his father William Steuart Trench as co–agent and local magistrate on the Digby estate in Geashill in 1857. He also acted as assistant agent on the Bath estate in Co. Monaghan. During his agency in King's County, the Barony of Geashill experienced vast improvements in both the architecture of Geashill village and the topography of the landscape. While Thomas Weldon played an instrumental role in such a transformation, he adopted a hard line authoritarian style of estate management. This is reflected in his ruthless tactics to clear the estate of small tenants and beggars, in order to create larger holdings with better drainage and more advanced farming methods. The case of Alice Dillon illustrates how the actions of Thomas Weldon Trench were ruthless and hasty in dealing with the removal of a beggar woman from the estate on Christmas Eve in 1861. His actions were questioned by the Lord Chancellor, from whom he received a strong reprimand and warning, an episode he omitted in the annual reports to Lord Digby.

Hi agency was also marked by the rise of Ribbonmen and a flame of agitation likely to be the response of aggrieved tenants towards his style of management. Similar hostilities to him existed in Co. Monaghan. By 1870, Thomas Weldon Trench resigned his post as resident agent in Geashill
and subsequently became a medical volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War. This was short-lived due to illness and he returned to Ireland later that year. He died at the relatively young age of 39 in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan on 15 August 1872, which was just shortly after the death of his father, W. S., on the 4 August 1872. They are both buried in Donaghmoyne churchyard, Carrickmacross.He remained unmarried and died on the 15th of August 1872.

Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury was born in London to Captain Kenneth Howard-Bury and his wife Lady Emily Alfreda Julia Bury, youngest daughter of Charles William Bury, 3rd earl of Charleville. He was educated privately at Charleville Castle, at Eton College and at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He joined the 60th Rifles in 1904 and was posted to India, where he began his life-long love of exploration and mountaineering. He climbed the Tien Shen mountains in Tibet in 1912 and kept a travel diary. A book 'The Mountains of Heaven' from this diary was published in 1990.

In 1912 he inherited Belvedere House, Mullingar, County Westmeath, from his cousin Charles Brinsley Marlay. From this time, Charleville Castle ceased to be used by the family.

He resumed active service during the First World War, commanding the 7th and 9th battalions of the King's Royal Rifles. He served at Arras, the Somme, Passchendale and Ypres where he was captured and remained a prisoner of war at Furstenburg until 1919. Following the war, he returned to mountaineering and led the first expedition to Everest which surveyed the route to the summit for future climbers.

Following the successful expedition to Everest, Howard-Bury was a well-known figure and entered politics. He was MP for Bilston (South Wolverhampton) in 1922 and MP for CHelmsford between 1926 and 1931, when he retired after inheriting Charleville Estate on the death of his mother. During the Second World War, he was appointed an assistant commissioner for the British Red Cross. During this time he met Rex Beaumont, an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at that time in the RAF during the war. They became close friends and together renovated Belvedere House where they lived for the rest of their lives. In 1948, Howard-Bury auctioned most of the contents of Charleville Castle including furniture and paintings.

Howard-Bury died in 1963. He bequeathed Charleville etsate to his cousin, Major William Bacon Hutton Bury, the grandson of the 4th earl of Charleville's elder sister, Lady Katherine Beaujolois Bury and hr husband Edmund Bacon Hutton. He bequeathed Belvedere to Rex Beaumont.

Lady Harriet Hugh Adelaide Bury was the second daughter of Charles William George, 3rd earl of Charleville and his wife Arabella. She was orphaned in 1859 at the age of 5 years when her father died, her mother having died in 1857. Harriet and her four siblings were made wards of chancery and placed in the guardianship of their uncle, Alfred Bury. In 1861 at the age of 7 years, Lady Harriet suffered a fatal accident at Charleville Castle when she fell from the banisters of the staircase.

Catherine Maria Dawson was the daughter of Thomas Townley Dawson and married firstly James Tisdall, and had two children by him, James Thomas Townley Tisdall and Louisa Tisdall. She married Charles Bury in 1798 shortly after the death of James Tisdall from epilepsy. They had one son, Charles William, who succeeded his father in 1835.

Her daughter by her first marriage, Louisa Tisdall (1796-1882), married George Marlay, and many years later in 1912, her grandson, Charles Brinsley Marlay, bequeathed his estate at Belvedere, Mullingar, County Westmeath to his distant cousin Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury. Charles Brinsley Marlay also inherited Catherine Maria's papers which are now housed in the University of Nottingham.

Major William Bacon Hutton Bury was the son of Edgar William Hutton and Vera Chetwynd-Staplyton. He married Bly Mildred Spillier in 1940 and had two children. He inherited the Charleville estate in 1963 on the death of his cousin Col. C. K. Howard-Bury. Hutton changed his surname by deed poll in 1964 to 'Hutton Bury'; his grandmother was Lady Katherine Beaujolois Arabella Bury. He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and Wellington College. He fought in the Second World War and was wounded twice, retiring in 1945 with the rank of Major.

Captain Kenneth Howard was the eldest son of James Kenneth Howard and was an army officer. He married Lady Emily Alfreda Julia Bury in 1881 and on their marriage he assumed the second surname and the arms of Bury by royal license. They had two children, Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and Marjorie Howard-Bury. He died in 1885, while his children were very young. Lady Emily who had inherited the Charleville estate in 1875, lived until 1931.

Col. Edmund Bacon Hutton was the youngest son of William Hutton of Gate Burton, Lincolnshire. He served in the Royal Dragoons and was ADC to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Lord Spencer). He married Lady Katherine Arabella Beaujolois Bury in 1875.

Lady Katherine Arabella Beaujolois Bury was the eldest daughter of Charles William George, 3rd earl of Charleville, and his wife Arabella. She married Col. Edmund Bacon Hutton of the Royal Dragoons in 1873.

Emily Frances Wood married the Honorable Alfred Bury in 1854. She became countess of Charleville in 1874 when the earldom reverted to Alfred, but he died shortly after in 1875, and the estates passed to his sister Lady Emily Howard-Bury. As Emily Frances and Albert had no children, the peerage became extinct on his death.