Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor

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.

The Right Honourable The Lord Trevor PC
Chief Justice Trevor
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

Arms of Trevor: Party per bend sinister ermine and ermines, a lion rampant or

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 King's Counsel 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 1690 he married Elizabeth Searle (d. 1702), daughter of John Searle of Finchley; their two sons, Thomas and John, succeeded their father in turn but died without male issue, the peerage devolving upon Trevor's son from his second marriage, Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden.[4]

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.[5] 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. "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
3. Chisholm 1911, p. 257.
4. Rigg, James McMullen (1899). "Trevor, Thomas (1658-1730)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 228–230.
5. Palmer, Kathleen (2018). Ladies of Quality & Distinction. London: The Foundling Museum. p. 12.

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 (ed.). 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