Sir William Trumbull (8 September 1639-14 December 1716) was an English statesman who held high office as a member of the First Whig Junto. Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Year 1716 ( MDCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a The First Whig Junto controlled the government of England from 1694 to 1699
Trumbull was born at Easthampstead Park in Berkshire, the son and heir of William Trumbull (1594-1668), and educated at Wokingham School and St John's College, Oxford. Easthampstead Park is a Victorian Mansion in the Civil parish of Bracknell in the English county of Berkshire. __FORCETOC__ St John's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. In 1667 he was awarded a Doctorate of Civil Law and elected to a fellowship at All Souls. All Souls College (in full The Warden and College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges In the same year he was entered at the Middle Temple, and was admitted an advocate in Doctors' Commons on 28 April 1668. The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as Barristers Doctors' Commons, also called the College of Civilians, was a society of lawyers practising civil law in London. Events 1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title He began practising in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts.
In 1683 he was appointed Judge-Advocate of the Fleet and sailed in Lord Dartmouth’s expedition to evacuate the British colony at Tangier, where he was to act as commissioner for settling the leases of the houses between the King and the inhabitants. Tangier or Tangiers ]] ( Tanja طنجة in Berber and Arabic, Tánger in Spanish Samuel Pepys, who was also on the expedition, was unimpressed - "Strange to see how surprised and troubled Dr. Samuel Pepys, FRS (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703 was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for Trumbull shows himself at this new work put on him of a judge-advocate; how he cons over the law-martial and what weak questions he asks me about it". Later Pepys calls him "a man of the meanest mind as to courage that ever was born".
In 1684, the King considered Trumbull as a possible Secretary of State, but he was eventually offered the office of Secretary of War in Ireland, which he turned down. Charles II (Charles Stuart 29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685 was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Nevertheless, he was knighted on 21 November 1684, and the following February was made Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance; he also entered Parliament as MP for East Looe. Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem. The Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance from its constitution in East Looe was a Parliamentary borough represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. However, Charles II died a few days later and Trumbull had to relinquish the clerkship when he was sent by James II, unwillingly, as envoy extraordinary to France. Trumbull was an odd choice for the post, being a zealous opponent of Roman Catholicism, and did much to benefit the condition of the English Protestants in France after Edict of Fontainebleau. The Edict of Fontainebleau (October 1685 was an Edict issued by Louis XIV of France, also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes of In 1686 he was recalled from Paris, but was instead appointed Ambassador at Constantinople, where he remained until 1691. He was also made a Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
On 3 May 1694 he was appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury, and a year later was made a Privy Counsellor and appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department. Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João This is a list of Lord High Treasurers of England and later of Great Britain. A privy council is a body that advises the Head of state of a nation on how to exercise their executive authority, typically but not always in the context of a The Secretary of State for the Northern Department was a position in the Cabinet of the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain up to 1782 However, he was unhappy in the post, and resigned it on 2 December 1697. Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire He then retired from public life.
Trumbull was a friend of both John Dryden and Alexander Pope. John Dryden (– was an influential English poet Literary critic, Translator and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744 is generally regarded as the greatest English Poet of the eighteenth century best known for his Satirical It was Trumbull who, admiring Pope’s translation of the “Epistle of Sarpedon” from the Iliad urged him to translate the whole of Homer's works, and Pope’s “Spring” was dedicated to him. Dryden records, in the postscript to his translation of Virgil, that "if the last Aeneid shine amongst its fellows, it is owing to the commands of Sir William Trumbull, who recommended it as his favourite to my care. "
In 1670, Trumbull married Katherine, daughter of Sir Charles Cotterell, Master of the Ceremonies; she died in 1704, they having had no children. The office of Master of the Ceremonies was established by King James I/VI. In 1706, he married Judith Alexander, daughter of the Earl of Stirling. They had two children:
- Judith (1707-1708)
- William Trumbull (1708-1760)
Trumbull died in 1716, and is buried at Easthampstead.
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by The Duke of Shrewsbury |
Secretary of State for the Northern Department 1695–1697 |
Succeeded by James Vernon |
| Parliament of England | ||
| Preceded by John Kendall Sir Jonathan Trelawny |
Member of Parliament for East Looe with Charles Trelawny 1685–1687 |
Succeeded by Henry Trelawny Charles Trelawny |
| Preceded by Heneage Finch Sir Thomas Clarges |
Member of Parliament for Oxford University with Heneage Finch 1695–1698 |
Succeeded by Sir Christopher Musgrave Sir William Glynne |
References
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Dictionary of National Biography
- David Nash Ford’s Royal Berkshire History
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