Family and Education
bap. 23 Aug. 1624,Mems. of St Margaret, Westminster ed. A.M. Burke (1914); SP29/80, f. 14. 1st s. of Sir John Trevor* of Plas Têg and Trefalun, Denb. and Anne, da. of Edmund Hampden of Wendover, Bucks.SP29/80, f. 13v. educ. Univ. Leiden, 21 Nov. 1643.English-Speaking Students at Leyden ed. E. Peacock, 99. m. 21 June 1649,St Mary Abbots, Kensington, par. reg. (IGI). Ruth (bur. 3 Dec. 1687), da. of John Hampden* of Great Hampden, Bucks., 5s. 3da.SP29/80, f. 13v; St Bartholomew the Less, Smithfield, London, par. reg. Kntd. bef. 4 Feb. 1668.CSP Dom. 1667–8, p. 223. d. 28 May 1672.SP29/319A, f. 50.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Denb. 5 Aug. 1642-bef. Mar. 1649;Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 74–6. Flint by Mar. 1648–11 June 1649;Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 111. Westminster by Oct. 1660–?d. Commr. assessment, Denb. 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 1664; Flint 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 1 June 1660, 1664; Mdx., Salop 1664;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. associated cos. of N. Wales, Denb., Flint 21 Aug. 1648; militia, 2 Dec. 1648; Westminster, N. Wales 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Commr. poll tax, Denb., Flint, 1660; subsidy, Denb., Flint, Westminster, liberty of duchy of Lancaster (Mdx.) 1663.SR.

Central: member, cttee. for trade, 1 Nov. 1655, 1668–d.;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 1. cttee. of appeals, forests, 26 June 1657.A. and O. Commr. tendering oath to MPs, 26 Jan. 1659.CJ vii. 593a. Custos brevium, Common Bench, 21 Jan.-May 1660.CJ vii. 817b, 863b. Cllr. of state, 25 Feb. 1660.A. and O. PC, 29 Sept. 1668–d. Sec. of state (north), 4 Dec. 1668–d.SP30/C, f. 11; SP44/25, f. 75. Commr. inquiry into land settlements [I], 2 July 1671;CSP Dom. 1671, p. 358. prize appeals, Apr. 1672.CSP Dom. 1671–2, p. 419.

Diplomatic: envoy extraordinary to France, Apr. 1663, Feb.-June 1668.CSP Dom. 1663–4, p. 126; 1667–8, pp. 223, 228, 297, 329, 331, 335, 354, 525; Bulstrode Pprs. ed. A. Morrison (1897), 22–4, 43.

: of Plas Têg, Flint.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, family group, early 1630s;E.S. Jones, Trevors of Trevalyn (1955), opp. 64. oils, P. Lely, c.1670.Trevors of Trevalyn, opp. 74.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

TREVOR, John (1624-72), of Plas Têg, Flint.

Will
not found.
Estates
interest in sea coal farm with Sir Charles Wolseley*, Philip Jones*, Stephen Harvey and Gilbert Gerrard, Dec. 1658.The Glynde Place Archives ed. R. Dell (1964), 49.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mdx. 1657-8.Henry Cromwell Corresp. 300; Glynde Place Archives, 49.
Religion
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