Home › T › Trelawny (SIR JONATHAN an English)

Trelawny (SIR JONATHAN an English)

SIR JONATHAN, an English clergyman; from Westminster passed in 1663 to Christ Church, Oxford, and became bishop in turn of Bristol (1685), Exeter (1688), and Winchester (1707); he was one of the Seven Bishops tried under James II., and is the hero of R. S. Hawker's well-known ballad, "And shall Trelawny die?" This was based on a contemporary refrain, the strong feeling aroused among the Corto Trelawny's being head of an ancient Cornish house than to his being a bishop or even a martyr in a good cause. 1721.

Trelawny died in