Sir Joseph Tredenham (c.1641 – 24/25 April 1707) of Tregonan,

St Ewe St Ewe () is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which is believed by hagiographers to have been named after the English moniker of Saint Avoye. The village is situated approximately five miles (8 km) southw ...

, Cornwall was an English administrator and Member of Parliament. He was the second surviving son of attorney John Tredenham of Philleigh, Cornwall and the younger brother of William Tredenham, MP. He was appointed

High Sheriff of Cornwall Sheriffs and high sheriffs of Cornwall: a chronological list: The right to choose high sheriffs each year is vested in the Duchy of Cornwall. The Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Privy Council, chaired by the sovereign, chooses the sheriff ...

for 1664–65. He then entered Parliament, representing

St Mawes St Mawes () is a village on the end of the Roseland Peninsula, in the eastern side of Falmouth, Cornwall, Falmouth harbour, on the south coast of Cornwall, England. The village, formerly two separate hamlets, lies on the east bank of the Carri ...

from 1666 to 1679,

Grampound Grampound () is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Grampound with Creed, in the Cornwall (district), Cornwall district, in the ceremonial county of Cornwall, England. It is at an ancient crossing point of the River Fal and ...

from March to July, 1679, St Mawes again from October 1679 to March 1681, Grampound again from 1685 to 1687 and finally St Mawes again from 1689 to 1695 and 1698 to his death in 1707. He was knighted by 1666. He served as Governor of

(a garrison fort near Falmouth, Cornwall), as Vice-Admiral of North Cornwall from 1679 to possibly 1686 and as Vice-warden of the Stannaries by 1682 to 1689. He was also a

Gentleman of the Privy Chamber A privy chamber was the private apartment of a royal residence in England. The Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber were noble-born servants to the Crown who would wait and attend on the King in private, as well as during various court activities, f ...

from 1664 to 1685 and the joint-comptroller of Army accounts from 1603 to his death. He died in 1707. He had married in 1666 Elizabeth, daughter of

Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet (10 September 1610 – 4 December 1688) of Berry Pomeroy Castle was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1688. He fought for the Royalist cause in the English ...

, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon. He had one surviving son and two daughters. He was buried in

Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British m ...

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