Sir Jonathan Trelawny (17 December 1568 – 21 June 1604), of Pool in

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, Cornwall, was an English Member of Parliament. Trelawny was the posthumous younger son of John Trelawny of Pool (who had been High Sheriff of the county); his elder brother died in infancy and he inherited the estate. He entered Parliament as member for

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, representing that borough in three parliaments, and subsequently also represented

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in the Parliaments of 1597 and 1604. On one occasion he was sent to the

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for losing his temper during a parliamentary debate where he ''"dealt his opponent, Mr Ashe, a thundering box to his ear"'' and ''"flashed his sword"''. He was

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in 1595 and was knighted in 1597; he was also

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and Steward of the borough of West Looe. He died on 22 June 1604, while Parliament was in session. The Journal of the House of Commons records that the House was informed of his death the following day: he ''"being suddenly suffocated with a flux of blood, which came by breaking a vein with vehement coughing, and was said to found sick and dead within quarter of an hour"''; the House of Commons voted to attend his funeral at

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, an unusual mark of respect. In 1600, Sir Jonathan purchased the manor of Trelawney or Trelawn in

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from the Crown, and moved his residence there from Pool. (This was not the same Trelawney from which the family originally took its name, which was in the parish

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, a dozen miles away, and where they had not lived for some centuries.) He had married Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter of Sir Henry Killigrew, which made him a distant connection of

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, whose aunt Catherine Cooke was Killigrew's first wife, and Trelawny ensured that the Parliamentary seats he controlled at Liskeard were at Cecil's disposal in 1597 and 1601. Their eldest son,

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(1592–1664), was created a baronet in 1628. To his second son, Edward, he left the estate of Coldrenick.

References

* Arthur Collins, ''The English Baronetage'', Volume 2 (London: Thomas Wotton, 1741

* ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'' (London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1832

* ''Vivian's Visitations of Cornwall'' (Exeter: William Pollard & Co, 1887

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, ''The History of Cornwall'', edited by Samuel Drew, Volume II (Helston: William Penaluna, 1824

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, ''The Elizabethan House of Commons'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) {{DEFAULTSORT:Trelawny, Jonathan 1568 births 1604 deaths Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall Politicians from Cornwall High sheriffs of Cornwall English MPs 1586–1587 English MPs 1589 English MPs 1593 English MPs 1597–1598 English MPs 1604–1611