Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Bt (1650-1721), Bishop of Winchester

Prelate, of a royalist military family; Christ Church, Oxford; BA 1672, MA 1675; succeeded as 3rd Bt. 1681; DD 1685; mobilized Cornish militia against Monmouth 1685 (which led to his being described as a ‘spiritual Dragoon’); Bishop of Bristol 1685-88; one of the Seven Bishops 1688; Bishop of Exeter 1688-1707 and Prelate of the Garter and Bishop of Winchester 1707-21.


This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.