Person Trevor; Thomas (1658 - 1730); 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham Trevor Thomas 1658 - 1730 Male At his villa, Peckham, Surrey 19 June 1730 Baptism: 06 March 1658 Burial: Bromham parish church, Bedfordshire

Peckham, Surrey (1718); Bromham, Bedfordhsire

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 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) Fellow 01/12/1707 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC; Thomas International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Before 6 Mar 1658 - 19 Jun 1730 NA5425 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 3ff04e61-0bde-4f5b-8627-9d475948c104