Career Highlights: The Cuckoos, Conspiracy, Midnight Mystery
First Major Screen Credit: Beau Broadway (1928)
Biography
A distant relative of producer William LeBaron, handsome, dark-haired Hugh Trevor had worked in advertising and the insurance business prior to making his screen debut for FBO in 1927, his screen test reportedly having been directed by Richard Dix. The collegiate type, Trevor supported FBO's answer to Rin-Tin-Tin, Ranger, in the action melodrama Ranger of the North (1927) and co-starred with Duane Thompson in the varsity comedy-drama Her Summer Hero (1928). Pleasant if unimportant stuff, but Trevor's screen career went into an immediate decline after the changeover to sound. His final film was Lowell Sherman's The Queen's Bed (1931), as the Crown Prince. His early death was attributed to complications following an appendectomy. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
(dā'kə) , 1914–2003, British historian, b. Glanton, Northumberland. He was educated at Oxford, where he was Regius professor of modern history (1957–80). He was Master of Peterhouse College, Cambridge (1980–87), and became an honorary fellow in 1987. Trevor-Roper was a prolific writer whose topics ranged from medieval to contemporary history; his The Last Days of Hitler (1947) is considered a classic on the end of the Third Reich. Among his other books are Archbishop Laud (1940), The Gentry, 1540–1640 (1953), The Rise of Christian Europe (1966), The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries (1969), Final Entries, 1945: The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels (1978), Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans (1987), and From Counter Reformation to Glorious Revolution (1992). He was created a life peer in 1987.
Baron Trevor is a title that has been created three times. It was created first in 1662
in the Peerage of Ireland along with the viscountcy of Dungannon. For information on
this creation, which became extinct in 1706, see the Viscount
Dungannon. The title was next created in the Peerage of Great Britain in
1712 for the lawyer Sir Thomas Trevor; the fourth Baron was created Viscount Hampden
in 1776. Both titles became extinct in 1824 (see the Viscount Hampden for more information).
The final creation of the title came in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom in 1890. Lord Arthur Edwin Hill, third son of Arthur
Blundell Sandys Trumbull Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire, had succeeded to the estates of his kinsman Arthur Hill-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Dungannon (see the Viscount Dungannon) in 1862
and had assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Trevor. In 1890 he was raised to the
peerage as Baron Trevor, of Brynkinalt in the County of Denbigh. As of 2007 the title is
held by his great-grandson, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1997. As a descendant of
the third Marquess of Downshire Lord Trevor is in distant remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary titles as well as to the
barony of Sandys.
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