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Family and Education
b. c. 1596,SP29/80, f. 114. 1st s. of Sir John Trevor† of Plas Têg and Oatlands, Surr. and Margaret, da. of Hugh Trevanion of Caerhays, Cornw.Glynde Place Archives ed. R. F. Dell, betw. pp. xxvi-xxvii. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1612;Al. Cant. I. Temple, 16 Sept. 1614.I. Temple database. m. (1) 4 Feb. 1619, Anne or Agnes (bur. 12 Sept. 1663), da. of Edmund Hampden of Wendover, Bucks., 3s. (2 d.v.p.), 5da.;J.P. Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (1802), i. 305; Chamberlain Letters ed. N. E McClure, ii. 210, 259, 577; E. Suss. RO, GLY/670; SP29/80, ff. 113v-113A. (2) lic. 2 Sept. 1672, Margaret Griffith of Westminster, s.p.London Mar. Lics. ed. Foster, 1358. Kntd. 7 July 1619.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 172. suc. fa. 20 Feb. 1630;SP29/80, f. 114. uncle Sir Richard Trevor† ?1639.E.S. Jones, Trevors of Trevalyn (1955), 36-8, 65; Glynde Place Archives, p. xxi; PROB11/182/87. d. betw. 3-19 Dec. 1673.PROB11/343/522.
Offices Held

Mercantile: jt. auditor (south), duchy of Lancaster, 1617–1637.Duchy of Lancaster Officeholders ed. R. Sommerville, 70. Jt. farmer, sea coal imports, 1630–?Dec. 1660.E. Suss. RO, GLY/389, 390, 454–66; CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 616. Commr. composition illegal exporters, Nov. 1635.CSP Dom. 1635, p. 514.

Local: dep. kpr. Oatlands Park, 1627–1639. aft. 14 Dec. 1628 – 11 Oct. 1630E. Suss. RO, GLY/224–6, 255–70. J.p. Flint, 27 Mar. 1648 – 28 July 1653, 13 Oct. 1653-bef. 10 Sept. 1660;Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 107, 111–14. Denb. 27 Apr. 1629–?11 July 1631, 9 Oct. 1648-bef. 4 Sept. 1660;Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 70–1, 76–8; A Perfect List (1660), 75. Westminster by Feb. 1632-aft. 1640;C66/2858. Mdx. by Apr. 1657-bef. Oct. 1660.C193/13/6, f. 55; A Perfect List (1660), 31. Commr. Mdx. militia, 25 Oct. 1644; New Model ordinance, Mdx. 17 Feb. 1645; assessment, Mdx. and Westminster 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648; Denb. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Flint 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1664, 1672; Mdx. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660; Westminster 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). sewers, Mdx. 15 Oct. 1645, 3 Jan. 1654, 5 Feb. 1657;C181/5, f. 262v; C181/6, pp. 4, 200. Denb. and Flint 4 Mar. 1654;C181/6, p. 21. Mdx. and Westminster 7 July 1657-aft. Oct. 1659;C181/6, pp. 200, 399. for reducing cos. of N. Wales, 28 Mar. 1646.CJ iv. 493b. Dep. lt. Denb. July 1646–?CJ iv. 598b. Commr. associated cos. of N. Wales, Denb., Flint 21 Aug. 1648; militia, Mdx. 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; Denb., Flint 2 Dec. 1648; Westminster 2 Dec. 1648, 12 Mar. 1660; N. Wales 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660; composition for delinquency and sequestration, 10 Aug. 1649; propagating the gospel in Wales, 22 Feb. 1650;A. and O. Westminster militia, 7 June 1650, 28 June 1659;A. and O.; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 37 (6–13 June 1650), 525 (E.777.11). oyer and terminer, Mdx. by Jan. 1654–10 Nov. 1655.C181/6, pp. 3, 63. Custos. rot. Denb. Mar.-bef. 4 Sept. 1660.A Perfect List (1660); Justices of the Peace ed Phillips, 78. Commr. poll tax, Denb., Flint, Westminster 1660; subsidy, Denb. 1663.SR.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, 1628-aft. 23 Mar. 1642.LC5/132, pp. 3, 122; Glynde Place Archives, 49.

Diplomatic: envoy to Paris, Jan. 1642.SP78/111, f. 189.

Central: member, cttee. for sequestrations, 7 Aug. 1644;LJ vi. 663a. cttee. for admlty. and Cinque Ports, 4 Oct. 1645; cttee. for Westminster Abbey and Coll. 18 Nov. 1645. Commr. exclusion from sacrament, 5 June 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A. and O. Member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 27 Dec. 1647;CJ v. 407a. Derby House cttee. 1 June 1648.CJ v. 578b; LJ x. 295b. Commr. Gt. Level of the Fens, 29 May 1649.A. and O. Member, cttee. for the army, 20 July 1649, 2 Jan., 17 Dec. 1652;CJ vi. 265a; A. and O. Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 20 July 1649.CJ vi. 266b. Gov. Westminster sch. and almshouses, 26 Sept. 1649.A. and O. Cllr. of state 13 Feb. 1651, 25 Nov. 1652.CJ vii. 221a; A. and O. Member, cttee. regulating universities, 22 May 1651.CJ vi. 577b. Treas. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 25 May 1655.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 182. Member, cttee. relief of Piedmont Protestants, 1 June 1655.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 197; SP46/112, f. 11. Commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656. Member, cttee. for improving revenues of customs and excise, 26 June 1657.A. and O. Commr. tendering oath to MPs, 18 Jan. 1658.CJ vii. 578a.

: of Plas Têg, Trefalun, Denb., Flint and Canon Row, Westminster.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, family group, unknown.Trevors of Trevalyn, opp. 64

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

TREVOR, Sir John (c.1596-1673), of Plas Têg, Flint, Trefalun, Denb. and Canon Row, Westminster

Will
12 Dec. 1672, cod. 18 Feb. and 3 Dec. 1673, pr. 19 Dec. 1673.PROB11/343/522.
Estates
c. Feb. 1619, received £3,000 portion from his wife; ?£300 p.a. allowance from his fa.Glynde Place Archives, 63. ?Bef. 1630, he owned property in Canon Row, Westminster.Glynde Place Archives, 64, 67; TSP v. 491. In Feb. 1630, he inherited from fa. lands in Denb., Flint, and elsewhere in Wales and England (subject to his mother’s life interest in lands at Plas Têg and elsewhere totalling £400 p.a.);PROB11/157/398. a share in farm of sea coal imports, held to at least Dec. 1660.Glynde Place Archives, 48-52; CSP Dom. 1661-2, pp. 472, 616. Bef. 13 Oct. 1640, he bought land in Acton, Mdx.; in Rhanberfedd and Hopemedachied, Flint; in Gresford, Allington, and Lyons alias Holt, Denb.; acquired manor of Oldswick and other lands in Oldswick, Monks Risborough, ‘Waldridge’ and Kingsey, Bucks.; at least some of this was still in his hands at his death.Glynde Place Archives, 65-6; PROB11/343/522. Betw. 29 Apr. 1652-1653, with George Twistleton* and Andrew Ellis*, he bought manors of Hawarden, Hope and Mold, Flint, from sequestrators, allegedly on behalf of Charles Stanley, 8th earl of Derby; of which Hawarden was sold on by the earl to John Glynne*, c.Dec. 1653, and the rest were apparently not reimbursed by the earl and were still in dispute aft. 1663.NLW, Coleman Deeds DD 1233; Flint Hist. Soc. vi. 52-4; The Case of Sir William Glynne (1685); Trevors of Trevalyn, 66-7.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Canon Row, Westminster.Glynde Place Archives, 64, 67; TSP v. 491.
Religion
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