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Tremayne — Trotter.
TREMAYNE, Sir JOHN.
Lawyer.
d. 1694.

Admitted 30 October, 1669.

Son and heir of Lewis Tremayne of St. Mawes Castle, Cornwall. He was called to the Bar 9 May, 1673. He acquired a great reputation as a lawyer, and his name appears frequently before the House of Lords from 1689, when he became a Serjeant, to 1693. He was knighted at Whitehall 31 Oct. 1689, and in 1690 represented the borough of Tregony in Parliament. He died 20 Feb. 1693-4.

He left behind him a volume entitled Placita Coronæ, published in 1723,. and translated into English in 1793


TRENCHARD, Sir JOHN.
Statesman.
1640—1695.

Admitted 21 June, 1667.

Fourth son of Thomas Trenchard of Woolveton, co. Dorset. He was born at Lytchett Matravers, near Poole in Dorset, on 30 March, 1640. He was called to the Bar on 29 May, 1674. He took an active part in the third and fourth Parliaments of Charles II., and was apprehended in 1683 on suspicion of being concerned in the plot for which Russell and Sydney suffered. After the accession of James II., he was concerned in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion. He supported the cause of the Revolution in 1688, and was rewarded by William III. by being made Serjeant, Chief Justice of Chester, with the honour of knighthood, and finally Secretary of State. He died in 1695.


TROLLOPE, THOMAS ANTHONY.
1774—1835.

Admitted 20 April, 1799.

Only son of the Rev. Anthony Trollope of Cottered, co. Herts, clergyman, and of the Middle Temple, and grandson of Sir Thomas Trollope, also of the Middle Temple. He was called to the Bar 11 May, 1804, but was not successful in practice, and turned to farming at Harrow Weald. He then invested in a scheme for the sale of fancy goods in America, which also failed. He subsequently speculated in house property in London with no more success, and died at Bruges 23 Oct. 1835. His best title to fame is as the husband of Frances Trollope, the novelist, and as the father of the still more celebrated Anthony, the author of Orley Farm (his house at Harrow Weald), and other novels.


TROTTER, JOHN BERNARD.
Author.
1775—1818.

Admitted 3 November, 1797.

Second son of the Rev. Edward Trotter of Downpatrick, co. Down, where he was born in 1775. He graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1795. During his residence in the Temple he obtained the acquaintance of Charles James Fox, who commended a pamphlet on The Union, and some verses he sent to him. This led to his appointment as that statesman's private secretary, and to the publication of his Memoirs in 1811. He died in great privation in Ireland 29 Sept. 1818.

Some letters of his were published after his death, under the title of Walks through Ireland, to which a Memoir of the author was prefixed.