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Major General Charles Trelawny -LRB- 1653 -- 24 September 1731 -RRB- was a British Army officer of Cornish descent , the fourth son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny , 2nd Baronet .. Major General. Major General. British Army. British Army. Cornish. Cornish people. Trelawny entered the army in 1672 , receiving a commission in the Royal English Regiment of Foot , raised by the Duke of Monmouth , which served in the French Army in the Third Anglo-Dutch War .. Royal English Regiment of Foot. Royal English Regiment of Foot. Duke of Monmouth. James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. Third Anglo-Dutch War. Third Anglo-Dutch War. He was present at the invasion of the Dutch Republic and the Siege of Maastricht -LRB- 1673 -RRB- , transferring as captain into the second battalion of the regiment , under Bevil Skelton , on 16 March 1674 .. Dutch Republic. Dutch Republic. Siege of Maastricht. Siege of Maastricht. captain. Captain ( British Army and Royal Marines ). Bevil Skelton. Bevil Skelton. He probably fought at Enzheim that year , and was at Altenheim the next , returning to England in 1677 .. Enzheim. Battle of Enzheim. Altenheim. Battle of Altenheim. Trelawny was commissioned captain-lieutenant of the Duke of Monmouth 's Regiment of Foot in 1678 and was promoted major on 1 November 1677 .. Duke of Monmouth. James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. captain. Captain ( British Army and Royal Marines ). major. major. On 13 July 1680 , he was appointed major of the Earl of Plymouth 's Regiment of Foot , raised as part of the Tangier Garrison .. major. major. Tangier Garrison. Tangier Garrison. Tangier. English Tangier. Plymouth. Plymouth ( UK Parliament constituency ). -LRB- Trelawny 's eldest brother , John , a captain , was killed at Tangier in May of that year . -RRB-. captain. Captain ( British Army and Royal Marines ). John. John Trelawny ( d. 1680 ). Tangier. English Tangier. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the regiment on 27 November 1680 , succeeding Percy Kirke , and succeeded Kirke as colonel on 23 April 1682 .. lieutenant-colonel. lieutenant-colonel. Percy Kirke. Percy Kirke. colonel. colonel. He returned to England upon the evacuation of Tangier in 1684 , where part of the regiment fought at Sedgemoor the following year .. Tangier. English Tangier. Sedgemoor. Battle of Sedgemoor. Trelawny was also returned to the House of Commons that year , as Tory Member of Parliament for East Looe , a seat he retained until 1698 .. House of Commons. British House of Commons. Tory. Tory. Member of Parliament. Member of Parliament. East Looe. East Looe ( UK Parliament constituency ). One of the army conspirators against James II , Trelawny , with his lieutenant-colonel Charles Churchill , and part of his officers and men , deserted to William of Orange in November 1688 from Warminster .. lieutenant-colonel. lieutenant-colonel. colonel. colonel. James II. James II of England. Charles Churchill. Charles Churchill ( British Army general ). William of Orange. William III of England. Warminster. Warminster. Dismissed by James , he was re-appointed by William on 31 December 1688 and the regiment renamed The Queen Consort 's Regiment of Foot .. Trelawny was promoted brigadier-general on 6 March 1689 , and led a brigade in Ireland , crossing at Slanebridge to attack the Jacobite left wing at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 .. brigadier-general. brigadier general ( United Kingdom ). brigade. brigade. Ireland. Ireland. Slanebridge. Slanebridge. Jacobite. Jacobitism. Battle of the Boyne. Battle of the Boyne. He served under Marlborough that September during his campaigns , and was promoted major-general on 2 December 1690 .. major. major. Marlborough. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. major-general. major-general. However , he resigned the command of his regiment -LRB- which went to his brother Henry -RRB- in 1692 to protest against William 's preferential treatment of foreign officers .. Henry. Henry Trelawny. From 1689 to 1692 he had also served in William III 's personal household as a Groom of the Bedchamber .. Groom of the Bedchamber. Groom of the Bedchamber. In 1690 , Trelawny obtained an estate at Hengar , St Tudy , Cornwall , by marriage to the heiress and widow Anne Morice -LRB- d. 1691 -RRB- .. Hengar. Hengar. He was considered for appointment as colonel of the Coldstream Guards in 1694 , but was thought too obnoxious to Whig sensibilities ; it went instead to John Cutts .. John. John Trelawny ( d. 1680 ). colonel. colonel. Coldstream Guards. Coldstream Guards. Whig. British Whig Party. John Cutts. John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts. He was made Governor of Plymouth in 1696 , and was returned as MP for Plymouth in 1698 , holding the seat until 1713 .. Governor of Plymouth. Governor of Plymouth. Plymouth. Plymouth ( UK Parliament constituency ). He married again on 25 June 1699 , Elizabeth Mitchell , by whom he had one daughter .. Trelawny left the governorship of Plymouth in 1722 and died at Hengar on 24 September 1731 .. Hengar. Hengar. Plymouth. Plymouth ( UK Parliament constituency )