John Hampden-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Hampden PC (24 February 1748 – 9 September 1824), was a British diplomat. He was the younger son of

Robert Hampden, 1st Viscount Hampden Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden (17 February 1706 – 22 August 1783) was a British diplomat at The Hague and then joint Postmaster General. Origins He was the eldest son of the second marriage of his father Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron T ...

and was educated at

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and

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. He followed in his father's career by becoming a diplomat. He was Minister to Munich (1780 – 1783) and to

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(1783 – 1798). On 8 May 1773, he married Harriet Burton (1751–1829), daughter of the Rev. Daniel Burton. Trevor was appointed to the

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in 1797. He succeeded to the Viscountcy of Hampden on 20 August 1824, just three weeks before his death. He had no heirs, and the title became extinct at that time.

References

*William Carr, "Trevor, John Hampden-, third Viscount Hampden (1748–1824)", rev. P. J. Jupp, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', (Oxford University Press, 2004

retrieved 22 Sept 2008. * *This also uses information gleaned from the ''GenFam Families Database''. 1748 births 1824 deaths British diplomats Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain 3 {{GB-viscount-stub