Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor

Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, (8 March 165819 June 1730) was an English and later British barrister, judge, and Tory politician who was Attorney-General and later Lord Privy Seal.

Biography Trevor was the second son of Sir John Trevor III. and was educated privately before entering the Inner Temple (1672) and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1680.

Family In 1690 Trevor married Elizabeth (1672-1702), daughter of John Searle of Finchley, by whom he had 5 children: Thomas Trevor, 2nd Baron Trevor (1691-1753), who married Elizabeth (1697-1734), daughter of Timothy Burrell of Ockenden House, Cuckfield, a barrister, by her having one daughter, Elizabeth (1715-1761), who married Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, thereby becoming the ancestress of the future Dukes of Marlborough and Winston Churchill Ann Trevor (1692-1785), who died unmarried Elizabeth Trevor (1693-1773), who died unmarried John Trevor (1695-1764), 3rd Baron Trevor, who married Elizabeth (c.1709-1782), daughter of Richard Steele, a writer, playwright, and politician, by her having one daughter Diana-Maria (1744-1778), who had severe learning difficulties and died unmarried Laetitia Trevor (1697-1769), who married Peter Cock of Camberwell, Surrey and had issue

In 1704 he married Anne Barnard, (c. 1670–1723), the daughter of Robert Weldon (or Wilding), a merchant in Fleet Street, London and Colonel of the Tower Hamlets Regiment. Anne had previously been married to Sir Robert Barnard of Brampton, 3rd Baronet, with whom she had had six children. By Anne, Trevor had two further children who lived to adulthood: Robert Trevor (1705-1783), 4th Baron Trevor (later created 1st Viscount Hampden) Richard Trevor (1707–1771), who was bishop of St Davids from 1744 to 1752, and then bishop of Durham.