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The Right Honourable
The Lord Trevor
PC
Chief Justice Trevor
Lord President of the Council
In office
8 May – 19 June 1730
MonarchGeorge II
Prime MinisterSir Robert Walpole
Preceded byThe Duke of Devonshire
Succeeded byThe Earl of Wilmington

Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor PC (8 March 1658 – 19 June 1730) was a British judge and politician who was Attorney-General and later Lord Privy Seal.

Biography

Trevor was the second son of John Trevor (1626–1672).[1] and was educated privately before entering the Inner Temple (1672) and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1680.[2]

He was made KC in 1683 and was knighted and made Solicitor General in 1692, being promoted to Attorney-General in 1695. In 1701 Trevor was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. He was also a Privy Councillor (1702–1714) and First Commissioner of the Great Seal (1710). In 1712 he was created a peer as Baron Trevor of Bromham.[3]

On the accession of George I in 1714 he was deprived of his offices for alleged Jacobite sympathies, but from 1726 he was restored to favour as Lord Privy Seal (1726 to his death),[3] one of the Lords Justice Regents of the Realm (1727), Lord President of the Council (1730) and Governor of the Charterhouse.[2]

In 1707 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]

Family

In 1704 he married Anne Bernard, (c.1670-1723), the daughter of Robert Weldon (or Weildon), mercer in Fleet Street, London. Anne had previously been married to Sir Robert Bernard of Brampton, with whom she had had six children.[4] Three of Trevor's sons succeeded in turn to his barony, and a fourth son, Richard Trevor (1707–1771), was bishop of St Davids from 1744 to 1752, and then bishop of Durham.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 256.
  2. ^ a b c "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  3. ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 257.
  4. ^ Palmer, Kathleen (2018). Ladies of Quality & Distinction. London: The Foundling Museum. p. 12.

References

Further reading

Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle
1692–1698
With: John Pollexfen 1692–1695
Courtenay Croker 1695–1698 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Lewes
1701
With: Thomas Pelham 		Succeeded by
Legal offices
Preceded by Solicitor General
1692–1695 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Attorney General
1695–1701 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
1701–1714 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Lord Privy Seal
1726–1730 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Lord President of the Council
1730
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation Baron Trevor
2nd creation
1712–1730 		Succeeded by


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