Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, (8 March 165819 June 1730) was a British judge and politician who was

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and later

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Trevor was the second son of

John Trevor (1626–1672) Sir John Trevor (1626 – 28 May 1672) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1672. Biography Trevor was a son of Sir John Trevor (d. 1673) of Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire. His father was a ...

. and was educated privately before entering the

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(1672) and

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. He was

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in 1680. He was made

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in 1683 and was

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ed and made Solicitor General in 1692, being promoted to

in 1695. In 1701 Trevor was appointed

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. He was also a

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(1702–1714) and First Commissioner of the Great Seal (1710). In 1712 he was created a

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as Baron Trevor of Bromham. He was created as one of Harley's Dozen when twelve new peerages were distributed to shift the political balance in the Whig-dominated House of Lords towards the Tories in order to secure the

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. On the accession of

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in 1714 he was deprived of his offices for alleged Jacobite sympathies, but from 1726 he was restored to favour as

(1726 to his death), one of the Lords Justice Regents of the Realm (1727),

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(1730) and Governor of the Charterhouse. In 1707 he was elected a

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Family

In 1690 he married Elizabeth Searle (died 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 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 ...

. 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. Three of Trevor's sons succeeded in turn to his barony, and a fourth son, Richard Trevor (1707–1771), was

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from 1744 to 1752, and then

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