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Monarch
  
George II

Preceded by
  
The Duke of Devonshire

Name
  
Thomas 1st

Prime Minister
  
Sir Robert Walpole

Succeeded by
  
The Earl of Wilmington

Died
  
June 19, 1730

Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor
Children
  
John Trevor, 3rd Baron Trevor

Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor PC (8 March 1658 – 19 June 1730) was a British judge and politician who was Attorney-General and later Lord Privy Seal.

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Biography

Trevor was the second son of John Trevor (1626–1672). He was knighted in 1692 as Solicitor General and in 1695 became Attorney-General. In 1701 Trevor was appointed chief justice of the common pleas, and in 1712 he was created a peer as Baron Trevor of Bromham.

On the accession of George I in 1714 he was deprived of the justiceship, but from 1726 to 1730 he was Lord Privy Seal.

Family

Three of Trevor's sons succeeded in turn to his barony, and a fourth son, Richard Trevor (1707–1771), was bishop of St Davids from 1744 to 1752, and then bishop of Durham.

References

Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor Wikipedia