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 TrevanionofCaerhayesinCornwall and his wife Amia Mallet.[1]
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 [2] at the siege of Bristol.[1]
A seventeenth-century ode relating to four Cornish commanders included the distich:
Gone the four wheels of Charles's wain,
Grenville, Godolphin, Slanning, Trevanion slain
They did not all fall at the same time, nor in the same place, but all four were killed in the year 1643. Slanning and Trevanion were slain at the siege of Bristol; Sir Bevil Grenville fell at the Battle of Lansdowne near Bath, where an obelisk has been erected to his memory; and Sir Sidney Godolphin was shot in the porch of the Globe lnn at ChagfordinDevon.[3]
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.[1]
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| Vacant | Member of Parliament for Grampound 1640 (April) With: William Coryton |
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel 1640–1643 With: Richard Arundell |
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