12 or 13th of August, born at Easthampstead Park, Berkshire

Attended Wokingham School

5 April, matriculated at St John's, Oxford

Travelled in France and Italy, in the company of Edward Browne, the son of the antiquary Sir Thomas Browne

Admitted to the court of arches

Lord Dartmouth, impressed with Trumbull's ability at the council table, chose him to serve as judge-advocate in his mission to evacuate Tangier. Trumbull arrived at Tangier Bay in mid-September

November, Ambassador to France

Mid-October, returned to London

April, set off to Constantinople as Ambassador

Set off for England

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Treasury commissioner, secretary of state, and MP

Governor of Hudson's Bay Company

Governor of the Levant Company

Retired; Trumbull's book collecting and literary interests led to friendship with the young Alexander Pope, his near neighbour at Easthampstead, who idolized him in some of his early verse as a paragon of virtuous 'retirement'

14th of December died at Easthampstead and was buried at the parish church