Ancestor of the Trevors of Trawscoed. They filled many of the higher posts in the Indian Army and Government service in the 19th Century.

Their numbers and importance gave rise to a saying that “as everyone knows if there were a single loaf of bread in all India it would be divided equally between the Plowdens, the Trevors, the Beadons, and the Rivett-Carnacs.” From The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling.