Nicholas Trefusis

Canting arms of Trefusis: Argent, a chevron between three spindles sable, from French fuseau, from Latin fusus,[1][2] a spindle, with the Anglo-Saxon place name element "Tre-" ("hamlet, farmstead, estate") which survives almost exclusively in Cornwall.[3] The manor of Trefusis was thus originally held before the Norman Conquest of 1066 by an Anglo-Saxon named "Fusis" or similar, thus "Farmstead of Fusis"

Nicholas Trefusis (died c.1648) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1628 and 1648.

Origins

Nicholas Trefusis was the last of the line of a branch of the Trefusis family living at Lezant in Cornwall.[4] The Trefusis family originated at the manor of Trefusis in the parish of Mylor, near Falmouth, in Cornwall. The present representative of the Trefusis family is Baron Clinton, of Heanton Satchville, Huish, Devon, the largest private landowner in Devon.

Career

Trefusis was elected as Member of Parliament for Newport in Cornwall in 1628 and held the seat until 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament. In April 1640 Trefusis was re-elected as MP for Newport for the Short Parliament. In 1646 was elected as MP for Cornwall as a replacement in the Long Parliament for Royalists who had lost their lives, but was excluded in Pride's Purge in 1648. [5] Trefusis made his will in 1647 and died thereafter.

Marriages & progeny

He married and had two daughters.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Larousse Lexis dictionnaire de la langue francaise, Paris, 1979, p.804
  2. ↑ Cassell's Latin Dictionary
  3. ↑ Padel, Oliver J., Place Names, article published in Kain, Roger & Ravenhill, William, (eds.) Historical Atlas of South-West England, Exeter, 1999, pp.88-94, esp.88-90
  4. 1 2 Davies Gilbert The Parochial History of Cornwall: Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin; with Additions and Various Appendices
  5. ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir Henry Hungate
Thomas WIlliams		 Member of Parliament for Newport
1628-1629
With: Piers Edgcumbe
(after William Killigrew chose to represent Penryn instead)		 Succeeded by
Parliament suspended until 1640
Preceded by
Parliament suspended since 1629		 Member of Parliament for Newport
1640-1641
With: John Maynard 1640
Paul Speccot 1640		 Succeeded by
Richard Edgcumbe
John Maynard
Preceded by
Sir Bevil Grenville
Alexander Carew		 Member of Parliament for Cornwall
1646-1648
With: Hugh Boscawen		 Succeeded by
Robert Bennet
Francis Langdon
Anthony Rous
John Bawden
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