| Authorised form of name | Trevor; Thomas (1658 - 1730); 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham |
| Dates | 1658 - 1730 |
| Place of death | At his villa, Peckham, Surrey |
| Date of death | 19 June 1730 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Baptism:
06 March 1658
Burial:
Bromham parish church, Bedfordshire |
| Activity | Education:
Private school at Shilton, near Burford, Oxfordshire; Inner Temple (admitted 1672); Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1673)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1680); KC (1683); Solicitor General (1692-1695); MP for Plympton (1692-1698); MP for Lewes (1701); Attorney General (1695-1701); Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1701-1714); Privy Councillor (1702-1714, 1726); First Commissioner of the Great Seal (1710); opposed the proposal to put a price on the head of the Old Pretender as unchristian and was removed from office on the accession of George I (1714); probably had Jacobite sympathies; Lord Privy Seal (1726-1730); one of the Lords Justice Regents of the Realm (1727); Lord President of the Council (1730); Governor of the Charterhouse
Honours:
Kt 1692; Baron 1712
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 01/12/1707 |
| Relationships | Son of Sir John Trevor, Secretary of State, of Trevalyn [Allington], Denbighshire, and his wife, Ruth, daughter of John Hampden of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire;
Married: 1) Elizabeth, daughter of John Searle of Finchley, Middlesex, and his wife, Anne, daughter of Paul Nicoll of Hendon, Middlesex; 2) his cousin Anne, widow of Sir Robert Bernard, Bart, and daughter of Robert Weldon of St Lawrence Jewry, London;
Father of John Trevor (FRS 1728), Thomas Trevor (FRS 1727) and Robert Hampden Trevor, 4th Baron Trevor and 1st Viscount Hampden (FRS 1764) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC; Thomas |
| Code | NA5425 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/004642 | Trevor, Thomas, 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham | nd |
| IM/004643 | Trevor, Thomas, 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham | 1702 |