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unusual facts about Sir John Trelawny, 4th Baronet


John Trelawny

Sir John Trelawny, 4th Baronet (1691-1756), MP for East Looe, West Looe and Liskeard


Digby Mackworth Dolben

His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.

John Trelawny

Sir John Trelawny, 1st Baronet (1592-1664), Royalist before and during the English Civil War

Sir John Trelawny, 1st Baronet

They had already secured a peerage for Trelawny's brother-in-law John Mohun, who had also been summoned by the Commons as one of the candidates in whose favour the controversial letters had been written.

The King was anxious to influence the election of MPs so as to secure a more pliable Parliament, and in Cornwall efforts on his behalf were being directed by one James Bagg, acting in concert with the Duke of Buckingham.


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