John Trevanion

1740 - 1810


Biography

London merchant, MP for Dover 1774-1784 and 1789-1806, and son-in-law of Sir John Boyd 1st bart. of Danson Park. Trevanion was shown as an owner in Grenada c. 1780. In 1817 Camden Park estate in St Vincent was registered to the heirs of the late Sir John Boyd and John Trevanion. Trevanion also appeared as a mortgagee with William Wood of property in St Vincent of Charles Payne Sharpe (q.v.) in 1766 for £5000.

  1. According to the History of Parliament, '[t]he nature of the business which Trevanion conducted from South Sea House, Broad Street, where he was listed as a merchant in the London directories between 1781 and 1795 (having previously traded from addresses in Bishopsgate), is not clear, but in 1806 Charles Jenkinson, who opposed him at Dover on the lord warden’s interest, described him as ‘originally a West Indian’. Jenkinson went on to say that ‘he has dissipated whatever property he possessed and bears in other respects a very broken reputation’.'

Sources

Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. III p. 324.

  1. John Brooke, 'Trevanion, John (c. 1740-1810), of Austin Friars, London' History of Parliament http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/trevanion-john-1740-1810 [accessed 08/09/2015]

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Elizabeth Boyd

Associated Estates (5)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Previous owner

Previous co-owner with Sir John Boyd 2nd bart.

1766 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1780 [EA] - → Joint owner
1780 [EA] - → Joint owner
1780 [EA] - → Joint owner

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Town house
Trevanion House 
description →
'Trevanion Street ran from St. James’s Street to Liverpool Street and dates from at least 1782. John Trevanion was not a Dovorian, but lived here many years, became a Freeman and was MP for Dover...
notes →
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Political (1)

MP
 
election →
Dover Kent
1774 - 1784
election →
Dover Kent
1789 - 1806

Relationships (3)

Brother-in-laws
Mortgagee → Mortgagor
Business partners
Notes →
Either partners or business...