Portrait of Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Bt, painted by
George RomneyNettlecombe Court in Somerset, seat of the
Trevelyan baronets
Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (6 February 1735 – 18 April 1828), of
Nettlecombe Court in
Somerset, was a British politician who sat in the
House of Commons from 1777 to 1796.
He owned enslaved people on
Grenada.[2] In 1835 his family received compensation of £26,898, a huge sum at the time, from the British government for the abolition of slavery a year earlier.[3] A descendant is the former
BBC journalist
Laura Trevelyan who quit the BBC to campaign for reparative justice for the Caribbean.[4]
Marriage and issue
Arms of Trevelyan: Gules, a demi-horse argent hoofed and maned or issuing out of water in base proper[5]
He married Louisa Marianne Simond, a daughter and co-heiress of Peter Simond of London, a Huguenot merchant. He inherited various Northumbrian estates from his wife's uncle in 1777.[1]
By his wife he had 6 sons and 2 daughters[1] including:
Venerable
George Trevelyan (1765–1827), 3rd son, Rector of Nettlecombe, Canon of Wells and Archdeacon of Taunton, father of:
Henry Willoughby Trevelyan (1803–1876), a
Major-General in the
British Army, father of Sir Ernest John Trevelyan (1850–1929), a Judge of the High Court of Calcutta, a writer on legal matters and a member of the Oxford Town Council.
Reverend William Pitt Trevelyan (1812–1905), 6th son, father of Reverend George Philip Trevelyan (1858–1937), father of
Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan, a diplomat and author.