TREVANION, William (1727-67), of Carhayes, nr. Tregony, Cornw.

In 1747 Trevanion was returned on his family’s interest at Tregony against the candidates of the Prince of Wales. ‘Mr. Trevanion’, wrote Thomas Pitt, the Prince’s election manager in Cornwall, 3 July 1747, ‘is most certainly not of age ... but the difficulty is to find proof of it’.HMC Fortescue, i. 120. Classed as a government supporter he went over to the Prince of Wales, whose household he joined in 1749, but rejoined the Pelhams after the Prince’s death, when he was given a duchy of Cornwall office of £220 p.a.

He died 24 Jan. 1767.