in 1847, and was a prominent speaker at the Oxford Union[2][3] In September 1833 he contributed to ‘Blackwood's Magazine’ an English verse translation of the ‘Nautilus’ of Callimachus, which the editor, Christopher North, praised warmly.
To rebut the suspicion of Roman Catholic sympathies, he gave a series of lectures on the Reformation, which drew large crowds.
His right to the office and endowments was established by proceedings in chancery and the queen's bench, but the pulpit remained closed to him, and he eventually returned to York in 1855, leaving a curate in charge at Sheffield.
In 1860, on the accession of Charles Thomas Longley to the archbishopric of York, the powers of the northern convocation were restored, after they had long lain dormant.
In 1852 Trevor published The Convocations of the two Provinces, their origin, constitution, and forms of proceeding, a work which had considerable influence on clerical opinion, and in the same year he was returned proctor for the archdeaconry of York.
In 1868, quitting York, he retired to the living of Burton Pidsea in Holderness, and in 1871 he was translated by the archbishop to the rectory of Beeford with Lisset and Dunnington.
In 1874 he received by diploma from Trinity College the degree of D.D., in recognition of his great work, The Catholic Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist.
A new enlarged edition appeared in 1875, with an appendix of authorities in the original Greek and Latin, bearing a dedication to Walter Farquhar Hook, dean of Chichester, to whose school of thought Trevor belonged.