Trelawney is a Cornish family tracing back to Saxon days.
1668-Jonathan Trelawny became Dean of St Buryan afterwards Bishop of Rochester and one of the seven Bishops imprisoned in the Tower of London and subject of the great Cornish song "And shall Trelawny die"
1673-Bishop Trelawny was ordained at the age of 23..
Bishop Trelawny inherited his baronetcy the debts which his Fathers Royalist activities had incurred, but marrying an heiress, he was able to benefit his old college at Oxford where he obtained his M.A. financially when Wren was at work on Tom Tower.
During Monmouth's rebellion Bishop Trelawny organised the military defence of his wavering county, and was rewarded with the bishopric of Bristol at the age of 35.
Bishop Trelawny remained mute on the Romanising practices of James, until he was bidden to read the Declaration of Indulgence throughout his diocese. Then venturing his life for Protestantism, he went to his trial with six other bishops, and with them was triumphantly acquitted.
James sought to conciliate Bishop Trelawny by offer of the bishopric of Exeter.
But Trelawny welcomed William of Orange at Torbay to whom he took the oath of allegiance. William confirmed his appointment to Exeter , and on his way down, the new Bishop exercised his right to visit Exeter college Oxford. Finding the door barred against him by a dishonest rector, Trelawny deprived him of his office, and suspended ten of the fellows. This led to the famous action in the courts in which he was finally vindicated. Although he sturdily resisted all attempts of the crown to encroach on Episcopal Prerogative, Trelawny was prompted to Winchester, and there he finished the building of the palace .
Remembering Oxford again he placed a statue to Wolsey over the gateway of the hall of Christ Church.
1756-The later Revd. Sir Henry Trelawny Bart Born.
Sir Henry received his early education at Plympton Grammar school.
1770-Sir Henry entered Westminster School.
1772-Henry Trelawny Bart became Seventh Baronet.
Henry though bred an Anglican and of a well known Anglican family, whose greatest luminary was the afore said Bishop Trelawny, he commenced preaching while still at Westminster School and his dissenting principles prevented his taking a degree at Oxford in those illiberal days.
1777-Henry Trelawny was ordained Minister in the Presbyterian Chapel he built himself at Looe.
1781-Henry Trelawny ordained Deacon and Priest in the Church of England.
1791-Henry Trelawny was presented to the living of St.Allen in Cornwall.
1793-Henry Trelawny remained at the living of St.Allen until this year,
1810-Henry Trelawny became a Roman Catholic.
1830- On the 30th May Henry Trelawny was ordained priest in the Roman catholic Church. The Holy Father appointing him as Bishop in partibus infidelium. To be thus thrice ordained must be something of a record.