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HAMPDEN-TREVOR, ROBERT, 1ST VISCOUNT HAMPDEN, eldest son of Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor PC, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, subsequently Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council, and his second wife Anne, widow of Sir Robert Bernard, Bart., and dau. of Col. Robert Weldon; b. 17 Feb 1705/6; ? at school under Freind (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1770) [Russell Barker & Stenning make this identification, but they print the Steward’s name for that year as Hon. Robert Trevor-Hampden, a description not appropriate for 1st Viscount Hampden at that date, and it may well be that there is an error in the Christian name and that the Steward was his son Thomas Hampden, 2nd Viscount Hampden (qv)]; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Feb 1722/3; BA 1725; Fellow, All Souls Coll. 20 Nov 1725; a clerk, Secretary of State’s Office Nov 1729 – c. 1733; Secretary to Legation, The Hague 1734-9, Envoy Extraordinary there 1739, Minister Plenipotentiary 24 Jun 1741 – Nov 1746; contested Oxford University at by-election Feb 1736/7; a Commissioner of the Revenue (I) 1750; assumed additional surname of Hampden 22 Feb 1754, on inheriting estates of his distant kinsman John Hampden, Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire; joint Postmaster-General 2 Jun 1759 – 19 Jul 1765; succ. half-brother as 4th Baron Trevor 27 Sep 1764; created Viscount Hampden 8 Jun 1776; FRS 13 Dec 1764; FSA 29 Feb 1776; a good scholar and collector of drawings and prints; author Poemata Hampdeniana, published posthumously 1792; m. 6 Feb 1743 Constantia, dau. of Pieter Antoni de Huybert, Heer van Kruiningen, Netherlands; d. 22 Aug 1783. DNB. ]
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.