William Trumbull ( 1639 - 1716 )

Birth: Easthampstead Park, Berkshire, England (06 September 1639) Death: 14 December 1716 Burial: Easthampstead church, Berkshire Profession: Barrister Education: Pupil of his grandfather, GR Weckerlin; Wokingham School; St John's College, Oxford (matriculated 1655); All Souls' College; BCL (1659), DCL (1667); Middle Temple (admitted 1657) Career: Fellow of All Souls (1657); travelled to France and Italy, with Sir Christopher Wren (FRS 1660) and Edward Brown (FRS date) (1664-1665); MP for Berkshire (1656-1658); MP for East Looe (1685-1687); MP for Oxford University (1695-1698); Advocate of Doctors' Commons (1668); Chancellor of the Diocese of Rochester (1671-1687); Commissioner for Assessment for Kent (1673-1674), and for Berkshire and London (1679-1680); went to Tangier with Samuel Pepys (FRS date) as Judge-Advocate of the Fleet (1683); Clerk to the Signet (1683-death); Envoy Extraordinary to France, where he assisted English Protestants after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685-1686); Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte (1687-1691); Commissioner for the Rebuilding of St Paul's (1692); Lord of the Treasury (1694); Secretary of State (North) (1695-1697); Privy Councillor (1695); Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company (1696-1700); Governor of the Levant Company (1696-1710); Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire (1701-death) Honours: Kt 1684 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/11/1692 Proposers: Sir Robert Southwell.