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SIR WILLIAM TRUMBALL (1639-1716)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 324 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:TRUMBALL (1639-1716)  , See also:English politician, was a See also:grandson of See also:William See also:Trumball (d . 1635), who was for sixteen years English See also:resident at See also:Brussels and afterwards a clerk of the privy See also:council . Educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford, See also:young Trumball became a See also:fellow of All Souls and settled down as a practising lawyer in Oxford and in See also:London . He was made See also:chancellor of the See also:diocese of See also:Rochester and was sent to See also:Tangier on public business in 1683, one of his companions Spores of the See also:Chief See also:European Truffles . 1, Tuber aestivum . 2, T. brumale . 3, T. melanosporum . 4, T. mesentericum . on this errand being the diarist See also:Pepys . In 1684 Trumball was knighted by See also:Charles II. and in 1685 he was sent as See also:envoy to See also:France, where he worked hard on behalf of the English Protestants there who were threatened by the Revocation of the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes . In 1685 he became a member of See also:Parliament, in 1687 he went as See also:ambassador to See also:Constantinople, and in 1694 he was made a See also:lord of the See also:treasury . From May 1695 until See also:December,1697 he was a secretary of See also:state under William III .

He died on the 14th of December 1716 . His son, William Trumball (1708-1760), had an only daughter, who became the wife of the Hon . See also:

Martin See also:Sandys . She was thus the ancestress of the later marquesses of See also:Downshire . Many of Trumball's letters are in the See also:British Museum and in the See also:Record See also:Office, London . Trumball was on friendly terms with See also:Pierre See also:Bayle and with See also:Dryden, whom he advised to translate See also:Virgil . He was also very intimate with See also:Pope, whom he influenced in several ways, especially in urging him to make a See also:translation of See also:Homer .

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