Sir Thomas Trevor, 1st Baronet ( – 5 February 1676) was a Welsh politician who sat in the

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variously between 1640 and 1648.

Life

Trevor was the son of Sir Thomas Trevor of Trevalyn Denbighs, Lord Baron of the Exchequer. He was an auditor for Duchy of Lancaster in 1640, In November 1640, he was returned as Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. There was a double return with William Watkins which was not resolved immediately. When some of the voters petitioned against the result, his opponent was forced to stop sitting as an MP until the dispute could be resolved. Meanwhile, he has created a

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(of Enfield in

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) on 11 August 1641. His election was finally declared void in November 1644. By this time, Parliament had suspended by-elections to fill vacancies because of the

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, and when they resumed Trevor was instead elected MP for

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in 1647. He was, however, excluded from the Commons in

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the following December. After the Restoration, Trevor was made a

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at the coronation of Charles II. He died in February 1676.

Family

Trevor married c.1632 Anne Jenner, daughter of Robert Jenner, a prosperous London silver merchant who had bought estates in Wiltshire. He married secondly Mary, daughter of Samuel Fortrey of

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. They had no children and the baronetcy became extinct on his death. His estates passed to Sir Charles Wheler, grandson of Mary, a sister of Sir Thomas Trevor's father.

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