John Trevanion

John Trevanion (1613–1643) was an English politician who sat in the

royalist officer who was killed in action in the English Civil War

.

Trevanion was the son of Charles Trevanion of Caerhayes in Cornwall and his wife Amia Mallet.^[1]

Trevanion was a

siege of Bristol.^[1]

A seventeenth-century

distich

:

Gone the four wheels of Charles's wain,
Grenville, Godolphin, Slanning, Trevanion slain

They did not all fall at the same time, nor in the same place, but all four were killed in the year 1643. Slanning and Trevanion were slain at the siege of Bristol; Sir Bevil Grenville fell at the Battle of Lansdowne near Bath, where an obelisk has been erected to his memory; and Sir Sidney Godolphin was shot in the porch of the Globe lnn at Chagford in Devon.^[3]

Trevanion married Mary Arundell, youngest daughter of Royalist John Arundell of Trerice, and sister of Richard Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Trerice and had a son Charles, who was successor to his grandfather.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c John Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain
^ Brunton, D. & Pennington, D. H. (1954) Members of the Long Parliament. London: George Allen & Unwin; p. 144
^ The Gentleman's Magazine July–December 1860

Parliament of England
Vacant Parliament suspended since 1629	Member of Parliament for Grampound 1640 (April) With: William Coryton	Succeeded by William Coryton James Campbell
Preceded by Nicholas Kendall Richard Arundell	Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel 1640–1643 With: Richard Arundell	Succeeded by John Maynard Francis Holles

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[Burke-1] John Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain

[2] Brunton, D. & Pennington, D. H. (1954) Members of the Long Parliament. London: George Allen & Unwin; p. 144

[3] The Gentleman's Magazine July–December 1860

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