Marcus Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon

Marcus Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon (1618 – 3 January 1669/70), also known as Colonel Mark Trevor, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and peer. During the English Civil War and the Interregnum he switched sides several times between the Royalist and Parliamentary forces. .

Sir Mark Trevor was one of Sir Edward's sons by his second marriage. He was a significant force in Ulster, and was created the first Viscount Dungannon and Baron Trevor, of Rostrevor, on 28 August 1662, by CHARLES II as a reward of his good services in the Battle of Marston Moor in the county of York, in which battle this Mark Trevor encountered Oliver Cromwell himself and wounded him with his sword.

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In 1664 he was appointed as Lord-Lieutenant of County Down. In a letter of 1668, Ormonde congratulated Dungannon on "setting distrust and enmity betwixt the Irish".

He died at Dundalk on 3 January 1669/70 and was buried at Clanallin, near Rostrevor.

His first wife was Frances, daughter and coheir of Sir Marmaduke Whitechurch. His second was Anne, widow of John Owen of Orieltown. On 27 March 1686, two of his sons matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, and on 31 December 1687 John, the elder, was accidentally shot by his younger brother, Marcus Trevor. It was yet another son, Lewis Trevor, who succeeded his father.

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