John Trevanion (1613–1643) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1640 to 1643. He was a

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officer who was killed in action in the

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. Trevanion was the son of Charles Trevanion of

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and his wife Amia Mallet.John Burke ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain''
/ref> Trevanion was a Member of Parliament, representing the Cornish boroughs of

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in the

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in 1640 and

Lostwithiel Lostwithiel (; ) is a civil parish and small town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom at the head of the estuary of the River Fowey. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,739, increasing to 2,899 at the 2011 census. The Lostwi ...

in the

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from 1640 until his death in action at the siege of Bristol. A seventeenth-century

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relating to four Cornish commanders included the

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: They did not all fall at the same time, nor in the same place, but all four were killed in the year 1643. Slanning and Trevanion were slain at the siege of Bristol; Sir

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fell at the

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near

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, where an obelisk has been erected to his memory; and Sir Sidney Godolphin was shot in the porch of the Globe lnn at

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.''The Gentleman's Magazine'' July–December 1860
/ref> Trevanion married Mary Arundell, youngest daughter of Royalist John Arundell of Trerice, and sister of

Richard Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Trerice Richard Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Trerice (c. 1616 – 7 September 1687) of Trerice in Cornwall, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1664 when he was raised to the peerage. He fough ...

and had a son Charles, who was successor to his grandfather.

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