Charles Trefusis, 19th Baron Clinton
Charles Rudolph Trefusis, 19th Baron Clinton (9 November 1791 – 10 April 1866), styled The Honourable Charles Trefusis between 1794 and 1832, was a British peer and Tory politician. He succeeded to the baronetcy following the death of his elder brother.
Background and education[]
Clinton was the second son of Robert Trefusis, 17th Baron Clinton, and his wife Albertina Marianna Gaulis. She was the daughter of Jean Abraham Rodolph Gaulis (died 1788)[1] of Lausanne, Switzerland, an important magistrate of that city.[2] Her mother was Jeanne-Louise-Dorothée Porta,[3] from another prominent Lausanne family. Her eldest brother, Clinton's uncle, was Abram Frederic Louis Juste Gaulis, a member of the Grand Council of Vaud and the heir and custodian of the Château de Colombier-sur-Morges, near Lausanne.[4] Another of his Swiss uncles was Charles Gaulis (died in Germany 23 August 1796), who fathered a child by Mary Jane de Vial (later Clairmont).[5] Clinton's cousin, Charles Gaulis Clairmont[6], who grew up as stepbrother to Mary Shelley, ended up as Chair of English literature at Vienna University[7]
Clinton was early orphaned: his father died in 1797 and his mother in 1798.
Clinton was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford.[8]
Political career[]
Clinton was elected Member of Parliament for Callington in 1813, a seat he held until 1818.[8][9] Between 1819 and 1833 he was a Commissioner of Excise.[8] In 1832 he succeeded his elder brother, (1787–1832) as baron. This meant that he left the Commons and entered the House of Lords.
Marriage and children[]
Lord Clinton married in 1831 Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Kerr[8] daughter of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian. They had four sons and seven daughters, including:
- Hon Emily born 6 September 1832
- Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton, his eldest son and heir.
- Mark George Kerr Trefusis (1836–1907), his second son, who in 1852 adopted by royal licence the surname and arms of Rolle following his inheritance of a life-interest in the estate of his maternal uncle John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1756–1842), which made him the largest land-owner in Devon. The Rolle estate descended from him to his nephew Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton (1863–1957).
- Colonel Hon. Walter Rodolph Trefusis (1838-1885), Colonel of the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards and Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.); one of his five daughters (no sons), Marion, married Thomas Coke, 4th Earl of Leicester.
- Colonel Hon. John Schomberg Trefusis (1852-1932), commanding officer of the 4th Battalion (1st Devon Militia), Devonshire Regiment,[10] his last son and child; his son Denys married Violet Keppel.
Death[]
He died in April 1866, aged 74, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton. His widow died in March 1871, aged 63.
References[]
- ^ La vie lausannoise au 18 ̊siècle, p.587
- ^ Thorne
- ^ Catalogue of archives of Gaulis family
- ^ "2. Charles Gaulis ('Charles Clairmont') - Claire Clairmont, Mary Jane's Daughter: New Correspondence with Claire's Father".
- ^ Cameron, Kenneth Neill (1970). Shelley and His Circle. Harvard University Press. p. 374.
- ^ "Charles Gaulis Clairmont manuscript material". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ McAllen, M. M. (2014). Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico. p. 21.
- ^ a b c d thepeerage.com
- ^ "leighrayment.com". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
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- 1791 births
- 1866 deaths
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- Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Callington
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