Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor

The Right Honourable The Lord Trevor PC
Lord President of the Council
In office 8 May – 19 June 1730
Monarch	George II
Prime Minister	Sir Robert Walpole
Preceded by	The Duke of Devonshire
Succeeded by	The Earl of Wilmington

Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor PC (8 March 1658 – 19 June 1730) was a British judge and politician who was Attorney-General and later Lord Privy Seal.

Trevor was the second son of John Trevor (1626–1672). and was educated privately before entering the Inner Temple (1672) and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1680.

He was made KC in 1683 and was knighted and made Solicitor General in 1692, being promoted to Attorney-General in 1695. In 1701 Trevor was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. He was also a Privy Councillor (1702-1714) and First Commissioner of the Great Seal (1710). In 1712 he was created a peer as Baron Trevor of Bromham.

On the accession of George I in 1714 he was deprived of the his offices for alleged Jacobite sympathies, but from 1726 he was restored to favour as Lord Privy Seal (1726 to his death), one of the Lords Justice Regents of the Realm (1727), Lord President of the Council (1730) and Governor of the Charterhouse.

In 1707 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Three of Trevor's sons succeeded in turn to his barony, and a fourth son, Richard Trevor (1707–1771), was bishop of St Davids from 1744 to 1752, and then bishop of Durham.

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