Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham ( 1658 - 1730 )

Baptism: 06 March 1658 Death: At his villa, Peckham, Surrey (19 June 1730) Burial: Bromham parish church, Bedfordshire Education: Private school at Shilton, near Burford, Oxfordshire; Inner Temple (admitted 1672); Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1673) Career: Called to the Bar (1680); KC (1683); Solicitor General (1692-1695); MP for Plympton (1692-1698); MP for Lewes (1701); Attorney General (1695-1701); Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1701-1714); Privy Councillor (1702-1714, 1726); First Commissioner of the Great Seal (1710); opposed the proposal to put a price on the head of the Old Pretender as unchristian and was removed from office on the accession of George I (1714); probably had Jacobite sympathies; Lord Privy Seal (1726-1730); one of the Lords Justice Regents of the Realm (1727); Lord President of the Council (1730); Governor of the Charterhouse Honours: Kt 1692; Baron 1712 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 1/12/1707.