Edward Trelawny

Governor of Jamaica 1737-1752.

1. Edward Trelawny was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owner of 1000 acres of land in Portland.

2. Death 16/01/1754 "At Hungerford park, of an inflammation of his bowels, aged 54, Edward Trelawny, Esq; late Governor of Jamaica, and Colonel of a regiment of foot. He was son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, late Bishop of Winchester, and brother to Sir John Trelawny of Trelawn, Cornwall, and served in two parliaments for Westlos. In his youth he had been a volunteer against the Moors at the seige of Oran, and likewise against the French at Philipsburg, where he was highly distinguished by Pr. Eugene, and made his Aid-de-camp. In 1737 he was appointed Governor of Jamaica. When in that office, he, in person, conquered the rebellious blacks; and then treated them with so much humanity, that it was said they built a town, and called it by his name. He was a volunteer at almost all the attacks made upon the Spaniards in the last war."

Kenneth Morgan, 'Trelawny, Edward (bap. 1699, d. 1754), colonial governor', ODNB Online; https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/trelawny-edward-1699-1754.

1. "A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754", TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/1754lead.htm.

2. Scots Magazine.