Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor

The Right Honourable
The Lord Trevor
PC
Lord President of the Council
In office
8 May – 19 June 1730
Monarch George II
Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole
Preceded by The Duke of Devonshire
Succeeded by The 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 the 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

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. 1 2 3 "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 Chisholm 1911, p. 257.

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Trevor, Sir John". Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 256–257.

Further reading

  •  Rigg, James McMullen (1899). "Trevor, Thomas (1658-1730)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 228–230.
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir George Treby
John Pollexfen		 Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle
1692–1698
With: John Pollexfen 1692–1695
Courtenay Croker 1695–1698		 Succeeded by
Martin Ryder
Courtenay Croker
Preceded by
Henry Pelham
Thomas Pelham		 Member of Parliament for Lewes
1701
With: Thomas Pelham		 Succeeded by
Henry Pelham
Thomas Pelham
Legal offices
Preceded by
Sir John Somers		 Solicitor General
1692–1695		 Succeeded by
Sir John Hawles
Preceded by
Sir Edward Ward		 Attorney General
1695–1701		 Succeeded by
Sir Edward Northey
Preceded by
Sir George Treby		 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
1701–1714		 Succeeded by
Sir Peter King
Political offices
Preceded by
The Duke of Kingston		 Lord Privy Seal
1726–1730		 Succeeded by
The Earl of Wilmington
Preceded by
The Duke of Devonshire		 Lord President of the Council
1730
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation Baron Trevor
2nd creation
1712–1730		 Succeeded by
Thomas Trevor


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