Harry Trelawny

Lieutenant-General Harry Trelawny (1726 – 28 January 1800) was a British Army officer who served with the Coldstream Guards during the American Revolutionary War. He was wounded while leading a battalion of the Guards during the war and later rose to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the regiment. Trelawny was the son of Capt. William Trelawny and his wife Mary Bisset, and the grandson of Brig-Gen. Henry Trelawny. He served with the "Buffs" as an ensign and carried the regimental colours during the Jacobite rising of 1745. He was commissioned an ensign in the Coldstream Guards on 28 June 1746. He was promoted lieutenant on 4 March 1752, and on 15 June of that year he married Mary Dormer (d. 22 February 1813) at Mayfair Chapel, by whom he had children, including: Col. Charles Trelawny (d. 1820), later Trelawny-Brereton, of Shotwick Park Sophia Trelawny, married John L. Freeman, of Crickmaillyn on 15 June 1801