About John Trevanion
Lived 1613 – 1643 (aged 29–30). John Trevanion was a politician.
John Trevanion (1613–1643) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1643. He was a 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.
Trevanion was a Member of Parliament, representing the Cornish boroughs of Grampound in the Short Parliament in 1640 and Lostwithiel in the Long Parliament from 1640 until his death in action at the siege of Bristol.
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.
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English politician, died 1643
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