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
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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). He was knighted in 1692 as Solicitor General and in 1695 became Attorney-General. In 1701 Trevor was appointed chief justice of the common pleas, and in 1712 he was created a peer as Baron Trevor of Bromham.

On the accession of George I in 1714 he was deprived of the justiceship, but from 1726 to 1730 he was Lord Privy Seal.

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.

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Trevor, Sir John". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 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. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 228–230.