Barlow Trecothick (1719-1775)

He was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a commissions merchant and spent some years in Jamaica where he owned plantations. After a brief return to Boston, in about 1750 he came to London in his capacity as a merchant with his brothers-in-law in the firm of Trecothick, Apthorp & Thomlinson. He became a member of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers; Alderman of the City (1764–74); Sheriff (1766); Member of Parliament (1768-74); and in 1770, he was elected the Lord Mayor of London. He was the agent for New Hampshire (1766–74) and was instrumental in lobbying for the repeal of the Stamp Act. In Parliament, he strongly opposed the government’s American policy. In 1768, he paid £38,500 for a 5,000-acre estate near Croydon and built Addington Park (seen in the picture above). In 1747, he married Grizzell (d.1769), daughter of Charles Apthorp. In 1770 he married Anne, sister of Sir William Meredith 3rd Bt., M.P., of Henbury Hall, for whom the town of Meredith in New Hampshire is named. He died without children, leaving Addington to his nephew.