Trevelyan Baronets
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The Trevilian, later Trevelyan Baronetcy, of Nettlecombe in the County of Somerset, was created in the Baronetage of England on 24 January 1662 for George Trevilian. He was the son and namesake of George Trevilian, a member of the gentry and supporter of the Royalist cause in the Civil WarEnglish Civil War
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. The family derived its surname (which is pronounced "Trevillian") from Trevelyan in the parish of St Veep
St Veep
St. Veep is a civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom situated above the east bank of the Fowey Estuary about three miles southeast of Lostwithiel....
, Cornwall
Cornwall
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. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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for Somerset
Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)
Somerset was a parliamentary constituency in Somerset, which returned two Members of Parliament , known traditionally as knights of the shire, to the House of Commons of England until 1707, the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from...
and Minehead
Minehead (UK Parliament constituency)
Minehead was a parliamentary borough in Somerset, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1563 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.- MPs 1563–1629 :...
. He changed the spelling of the family surname to Trevelyan. The fourth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK Parliament constituency)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne was a borough constituency in the county of Northumberland of the House of Commons of England to 1706 then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918...
and Somerset. The eighth Baronet served as High Sheriff
High Sheriff
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of Cornwall
Cornwall
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from 1906 to 1907. The presumed tenth Baronet never successfully proved his succession and was never on the Official Roll of the Baronetage
Official Roll of the Baronetage
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. Likewise, as of 13 June 2007 the presumed eleventh and present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is consequently not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant since 1976. For more information, follow this link.
Four members of the main branch of the family may also be mentioned. The Venerable George Trevelyan, third son of the fourth Baronet, was Archdeacon
Archdeacon
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of Taunton
Taunton
Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England. The town, including its suburbs, had an estimated population of 61,400 in 2001. It is the largest town in the shire county of Somerset....
. His third son Henry Willoughby Trevelyan was a Major-General in the British Army
British Army
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. His younger son Sir Ernest John Trevelyan (1850-1929) was a Judge of the High Court of Calcutta, a writer on legal matters and a member of the Oxford Town Council. Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan, son of Reverend George Philip Trevelyan, son of the Reverend William Pitt Trevelyan, sixth son of the aforementioned the Venerable George Trevelyan, was a diplomat and author. See also the Trevelyan Baronetcy of Wallington below.
The Trevelyan Baronetcy, of Wallington Hall in the County of Northumberland, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 13 March 1874 for the civil servant and colonial administrator Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, KCB was a British civil servant and colonial administrator. As a young man, he worked with the colonial government in Calcutta, India; in the late 1850s and 1860s he served there in senior-level appointments...
. He was the son of the aforementioned the Venerable George Trevelyan, third son of the fourth Baronet of the 1662 creation (see above). The second Baronet was a prominent historian and Liberal
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politician. The third Baronet was a Liberal, and later Labour
Labour Party (UK)
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politician. The fourth Baronet was a teacher, craftsman in wood and New Age
New Age
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thinker. Three other members of this branch of the family may also be mentioned. R. C. Trevelyan
R. C. Trevelyan
Robert Calverly Trevelyan was an English poet and translator, of a traditionalist sort, and a follower of the lapidary style of Logan Pearsall Smith.-Life:...
, second son of the second Baronet, was a poet and dramatist. His son Julian Trevelyan
Julian Trevelyan
Julian Otto Trevelyan, RA was a British artist and poet.Trevelyan was the only child of Robert Calverley Trevelyan and his wife Elizabeth van der Hoeven...
was a painter. G. M. Trevelyan
G. M. Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan, OM, CBE, FRS, FBA , was a British historian. Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a...
, third son of the second Baronet, was a distinguished historian.
The seat of this branch of the family is Wallington Hall
Wallington Hall
Wallington is a country house and gardens located about west of Morpeth, Northumberland, England, near the village of Cambo. It has been owned by the National Trust since 1942, after it was donated by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, the first donation of its kind...
, Cambo
Cambo
Cambo is a village in Northumberland, England. It is about to the west of the county town of Morpeth at the junction of the B6342 and B6343 roads...
, Northumberland
Northumberland
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. The estate came into the family in 1777 on the death of Sir Walter Blackett, 2nd Baronet.
Trevilian, later Trevelyan Baronets, of Nettlecombe (1662)
- Sir George Trevilian, 1st Baronet (c. 1635-1671)
- Sir John Trevelyan, 2nd BaronetSir John Trevelyan, 2nd BaronetSir John Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet was a British politician.The member of an ancient Cornwall family, Trevelyan sat as Member of Parliament for Somerset from 1695 to 1698 and in 1701 and for Minehead from 1708 to 1717 and 1717 to 1722...
(1670-1755) - Sir George Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet (1707-1768)
- Sir John Trevelyan, 4th BaronetSir John Trevelyan, 4th BaronetSir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet , was a British politician.The member of an ancient Cornwall family, Trevelyan sat as Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1777 to 1780 and for Somerset from 1780 to 1796. He died in April 1828, aged 93...
(1735-1828) - Sir John Trevelyan, 5th Baronet (1761-1846)
- Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet (1797-1879)
- Sir Alfred Wilson Trevelyan, 7th Baronet (1831-1891)
- Sir Walter John Trevelyan, 8th Baronet (1866-1931)
- Sir Willoughby John Trevelyan, 9th Baronet (1902-1976)
- Sir Norman Irving Trevelyan, 10th Baronet (1915-1996)
- Sir Edward Norman Trevelyan, 10th Baronet (b. 1955)
Trevelyan Baronets, of Wallington
- Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st BaronetSir Charles Trevelyan, 1st BaronetSir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, KCB was a British civil servant and colonial administrator. As a young man, he worked with the colonial government in Calcutta, India; in the late 1850s and 1860s he served there in senior-level appointments...
(1807-1886), a British civil servant and Governor of Madras. Wallington HallWallington HallWallington is a country house and gardens located about west of Morpeth, Northumberland, England, near the village of Cambo. It has been owned by the National Trust since 1942, after it was donated by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, the first donation of its kind...
was received in the will, executed in 1879, of his cousin Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet - Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd BaronetSir George Trevelyan, 2nd BaronetSir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet OM, PC was a British statesman and author. In a ministerial career stretching almost 30 years, he was most notably twice Secretary of State for Scotland under William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery...
(1838-1928), a British statesman and author - Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd BaronetSir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd BaronetSir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet PC , the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland, was a British Liberal, and later Labour, politician and landowner...
(1870-1958) - Sir George Lowthian Trevelyan, 4th BaronetSir George Trevelyan, 4th BaronetSir George Lowthian Trevelyan 4th Baronet, , an educational pioneer, a founding father of the New Age movement. After listening to a lecture by Dr Walter Stein, a student of Rudolf Steiner in 1942, he turned from being agnostic to new age spiritual thinker, and even studied anthroposophy in the...
(1906-1996) - Sir Geoffrey Washington Trevelyan, 5th Baronet (1920-2011)
- Sir Peter John Trevelyan, 6th Baronet (1948-)
Further reading
- A very British family: the Trevelyans and their world, by Laura Trevelyan. I.B.Tauris, 2006. ISBN 1860649467.