Sir Harry (Henry) Trelawny of Trelawne was a Cornish baronet of historic title.
His great-grandfather's brother Sir Jonathan Trelawny was one of the seven bishops sent to the Tower for defying James II's order to proclaim the Declaration of Indulgence.
[1] Trelawny was ordained a Catholic priest in Rome on Whitsunday, 1830 and spent his remaining years trying to arrange for the Passionists or the Rosminians to settle priests at Trelawne to found a permanent mission there.
There were endless delays, and the project was still in the air when Trelawny died, aged 77, on February 25, 1834.
He lies buried at Laveno, near Lake Maggiore, in a tomb inscribed with lines from St.