Robert Hampden, 1st Viscount Hampden
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Robert Trevor, 4th Baron Trevor and 1st Viscount Hampden (1706 - 1783), represented his country at the Hague from 1739 to 1746, during which time he maintained a regular correspondence with Horace Walpole. He took the additional name of Hampden in 1754, on succeeding to the estates of that family, and in 1776, twelve years after he had become Baron Trevor, he was created Viscount Hampden.
From 1759 to 1765 he was joint Postmaster General. He wrote some Latin poems which were published at Parma in 1792 as Poemata Hampdeniana. His second son, John Hampden-Trevor (1749-1824), died only three weeks after he had succeeded his brother Thomas as 3rd Viscount Hampden, the titles becoming extinct.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
| Peerage of Great Britain | ||
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| Preceded by New Creation |
Viscount Hampden 1776–1783 |
Succeeded by Thomas Hampden |
| Preceded by John Trevor |
Baron Trevor 1764–1783 |
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