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SIR JOHN TRENCHARD (1640-1695)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 245 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOHN See also:TRENCHARD (1640-1695)  , See also:English politician, belonged to an old See also:Dorset See also:family, his See also:father being See also:Thomas See also:Trenchard (1615-1671), of See also:Wolverton, and his grandfather See also:Sir Thomas Trenchard (1382-16J7), also of Wolverton, who was knighted by See also:James I. in 1613 . See also:Born at Lytchett Matravers, near See also:Poole, on. the 3oth of See also:March 164o, and educated at New See also:College, xford, See also:John Trenchard entered See also:parliament as member for See also:Taunton in 16i9, and associated himself with those who proposed to exclude the See also:duke of See also:York from the See also:throne . He attended some of the meetings held by these malcontents and was possibly concerned in the See also:Rye See also:House See also:plot; at all events he was arrested in See also:July 1683, but nodefinite See also:evidence was brought against him and he was released . When See also:Monmouth landed in the See also:west of See also:England in See also:June 1685 Trenchard fled from England, but was pardoned through the See also:good offices of See also:William See also:Penn and returned See also:home two years later . Again he entered parliament, but he took no active See also:part in the Revolution of 1688, although he managed to secure the good will of William III . He was knighted by the See also:king and made See also:chief See also:justice of See also:Chester, and in 1692 he was appointed a secretary of See also:state . He and the See also:government incurred much ridicule through their failure to prove the existence of a See also:great Jacobite plot in See also:Lancashire and See also:Cheshire in which they had been led to believe . Sir John died on the 27th of See also:April 1695 . His wife was Philippa (d . 1743), daughter of See also:George See also:Speke (d . 1690) of See also:White Lackington, See also:Somerset . Another member of the Trenchard family was the writer, JOHN TRENCHARD (1662-1723), erroneously referred to by Macau-See also:lay as a son of Sir John Trenchard .

Educated at Trinity College, See also:

Dublin, Trenchard inherited considerable See also:wealth and was thus able to devote the greater part of his See also:life to See also:writing on See also:political subjects, his point of view being that of a Whig and an opponent of the High See also:Church party . His chief See also:works are A See also:Short See also:History of See also:Standing Armies in England (1698 and 1731) and The Natural History of Superstition (1709) . With Thomas See also:Gordon (d . 1750) he produced a weekly periodical, The See also:Independent Whig, and with the same colleague he wrote a number of letters to the See also:London See also:Journal and to the See also:British Journal under the See also:pseudonym of See also:Cato . These letters were published in four volumes in 1724 and the collection has often been reprinted . Trenchard died on the 17th of See also:December 1723 .

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