¹ Bodleian MS Eng Hist d.410–16. The covers of the exercise books are marked ‘Vol II’ to ‘vol VIII’. Three more volumes cover the period 1868–73, when Trelawny was the M.P. for East Cornwall. The diaries were deposited in the Bodelian Library in 1974 by Miss Caroline Harvey, now Dr. Caroline Jackson, MEP, who discovered them in the offices of the Oxford City Conservative association. It is believed that all other Trelawny papers have been destroyed.

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⁴ He never practised law.

⁵ Trelawny succeeded his father in Nov. 1856. Since 1840 he had been a deputy lieutenant of Cornwall and a captain in the Cornwall Rangers militia. In 1842 he married Harriet Tremayne, the daughter of J.H. Tremayne of Heligan, Cornwall. They had one son and two daughters. Harriet died in 1879. In 1881 Trelawny married again, to Harriet Keppel (nee Buller).

⁶ The Times, 9 07 1841, p. 11Google Scholar; 17 July 1841, p.4. The election revolved around the issue of agricultural protection.

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²¹ Trelawny mentioned to the meeting at Tavistock, in Apr. 1852, that he had been approached with an offer to stand for a large metropolitan constituency. This was Lambeth, where it had seemed possible that a vacancy might occur. However, Tre-lawny had written to the embattled sitting member, Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt,to assure him that he would never be a ‘party to the undermining of any liberal man's seat’. 27 Feb. 1852, Tennyson D'Eyncourt MSS (Lincolnshire Archives Office), 2 T d'E/H/61 fo. 24.

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⁶⁰ E.g. 9 May 1843, H lxix. 85–90. Trelawny's maiden speech.

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⁶³ E.g. diary, 28 July 1859; 27 Feb.1863.

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