It was later claimed that вЂno body living is better able to give you characters of men fit to serve the King in the House of Commons and the ways of gaining themвЂ™. These qualms were laid aside as Trevor became increasingly indispensable. Trevor was ready to resume his former role as Speaker, even though the King had doubts about him, once commenting to the Marquess of Halifax (George SavileвЂ ) that he considered Trevor to be вЂsuch a knave that it would be objected if he was employedвЂ™. The new House was distinctly Tory in composition and someone of similar persuasion was required to chair and effectively lead the Lower Chamber. His guile and devious intelligence had ensured him success but had also given him a rather unscrupulous reputation. He became a self-appointed leader of the Tories during the Convention, and managed to convince the King that elections would result in a more compliant assembly.Д«y the beginning of the 1690 Parliament Trevor had largely recovered his pre-eminence in both the political and legal worlds and was recognized as a leading figure at Westminster. Trevor was quick to grasp the possibility of a political comeback, and contemporary reports suggest that he was deeply involved in the process of buying votes for the King in the Commons. The Convention proved to be a truculent assembly which consistently refused to settle the KingвЂ™s financial future.

TrevorвЂ™s legal background served him well and he was appointed solicitor-general to Queen Mary in 1689, thus giving him access to the ears of the powerful once again. Trevor had no intention of vanishing into a political wilderness and successfully set about ingratiating himself with William III and his court. He only sat in the Convention by virtue of a fortuitous by-election at Bere Alston, Devon, but he was deprived of his mastership of the rolls. In the late 1680s TrevorвЂ™s former loyalty to James II brought him a temporary reversal of fortune. It is no coincidence that the appointment followed soon after the elevation of his cousin Sir George Jeffreys to the lord chancellorship. He was rewarded for his political contribution in October 1685 with the mastership of the rolls. He continued as a Court supporter, opposing Exclusion and being chosen Speaker in 1685. By about 1679 Trevor had inherited the Brynkinallt estate, but never gained the Montgomery seat he desired, eventually gaining a Welsh foothold by taking Denbighshire in the third Exclusion Parliament. The same year he entered Parliament for Castle Rising on the Howard interest. In 1671 he was knighted and two years later he became one of the KingвЂ™s Counsel. His successful legal practice brought him attention and connexions at Westminster, and he managed to ingratiate himself at the Stuart court. Initially, he went to London to work as a clerk in the chambers of his uncle Arthur, a family connexion that ensured him a swift entry into the Inner Temple as the son of John Trevor of Rose-Trevar, co. The Brynkinallt estate passed to the eldest but вЂidiotвЂ™ son Edward in about 1643 and, as a younger son, Trevor found himself launched on a legal career. The family had played the usual gentry role in local politics and administration, but they were never as prominent in Wales as the cadet branch of the family based at Trevalyn. The Trevors were Denbighshire gentry who had long held the Brynkinallt estate around Chirk, together with substantial lands in co. Speaker of House of Commons вЂ“2 July 1687, 20 Mar.

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