Sir Jonathan Trelawny, MP, 2nd Baronet Trelawny

Biographical Summary

"Sir Jonathan Trblawny, Bart. 1628, of Trelawny, s. and h. by 1st wife ; b. about 1623 ; matric. at Oxford (Ex. Coll.), 14 Dec. 1640, aged 17 ; was fined (with his father) £629, in May 1649 ; Gent, of the Privy Chamber, 1660 ; suc. to the Baronetcy, 26 Feb. 1664 ; M.P. for East Looe, 1660 ; for Cornwall, 1661-78 ; for East Looe, again, 1678-79 and for Liskeard, 1679-81. He is said to have been "sequestered, imprisoned, and ruined for loyalty during the Civil War." He m. Mary, 6th da. of Sir Edward Seymour, 2d Bart. [1611], by Dorothy, da. of Sir Henry Killigrew abovenamed. She was bap. 19 Dec. 1619, at Berry Pomeroy. He was bur. 5 March 1680/1, at Pelynt. Will dat. 30 Deo. 1680, pr. 9 April 1681, in Archd. Court of Cornwall."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1900; Vol. II; page 43