Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Trelawny, Edward (2)


Trelawny, Edward, born at Trelawne, Cornwall, s. Jonathan, bishop of Bristol. Christ Church, matric. 27 June, 1717, aged 18; colonel of a regiment of foot, M.P. West Looe 1724-33, re-elected 1734, but disqualified being a commissioner of Customs (1732), a commissioner of the Victualling Office 1725, governor of Jamaica 1737, until his death 16 Jan., 1754. See Foster's Baronetage & Alumni West., 269.