Samuel Trotman (7 March 1686 –2 February 1748), of Bucknell, Oxfordshire, was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1722 to 1734.
Trotman was the eldest son. of Lenthall Trotman of Bucknell and his wife Mary Phillips, daughter of Thomas Phillips of Ickford, Buckinghamshire. He matriculated at
Trinity College, Oxford
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on 15 January 1702, aged 17, and was admitted at
Inner Temple
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,
He was called to the bar in 1710. Also in 1710, he succeeded his father to the family estate. He married, his cousin, Dorothea Trotman, daughter of
Samuel Trotman of Siston Court, Gloucestershire on 16 October 1712.
Trotman was returned as
Member of Parliament for
New Woodstock
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at the
1722 general election with the support of the Tory Earl of Abingdon against the Duchess of Marlborough's candidates,. He was returned unopposed at the
1727 general election. There is no record of him voting and he did not stand again at the
1734 general election.
[
Trotman died without issue on 2 February 1748.][
]
References
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1686 births
1748 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1722–1727
British MPs 1727–1734