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George Macaulay Trevelyan, OM, CBE, FRS, FBA ( 16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962 ), was a British historian.
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According to George Macaulay Trevelyan in A Shortened History of England, during the Viking occupation: “ The Scandinavians, when not on the Viking warpath, were a litigious people and loved to get together in the ‘ thing ’ to hear legal argument.
According to George Trevelyan, Macaulay ' instinctively desired to make Marlborough's genius stand out bright against the background of his villainy '.
Macaulay's nephew, Sir George Trevelyan, Bt, wrote a best-selling " Life and Letters " of his famous uncle, which is still the best complete life of Macaulay.
Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a consciously dispassionate analysis, that became old-fashioned during his long and productive career.
Although some historians such as Macaulay have claimed Somers was made chairman of the committee which drew up the Declaration of Right, the committee's report was delivered to the Commons by Sir George Treby ( the chairman always delivered the report to the House ).
* Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Arthur Gilligan, Roy Kilner, George Macaulay, Cec Parkin, Maurice Tate
* Sir George Trevelyan ( New Age spiritualist ), 4th Baronet ( 1906 – 1996 ), son of Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet and George Macaulay Trevelyan's nephew
His son was General Sir George Macaulay Kirkpatrick Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India.
* George Macaulay Trevelyan, " Garibaldi's defense of Rome " excerpts from Garibaldi and the Thousand, 1910
All four of Trueman's career hat-tricks were taken for Yorkshire and this is a county record he shares with George Macaulay.
In 459 first-class matches for the county, Trueman took 1, 745 wickets at 17. 12, a total bettered only by Wilfred Rhodes, George Hirst, Schofield Haigh and George Macaulay.
Founded in 1966, the college takes its name from social historian George Macaulay Trevelyan, Chancellor of the University from 1950 to 1957.
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Many, including Parnell, believed that Chamberlain, having brokered the agreement, would be offered the Chief Secretaryship, but Gladstone appointed Sir George Trevelyan instead.
Led by Chamberlain and Sir George Trevelyan, the Round Table Conference was an attempt to see if reunion of the Liberal party was possible.
Spencer, assisted by George Trevelyan, his new secretary, was now faced with the difficult task of pacifying Ireland.
According to British historian George Otto Trevelyan, the battle " exercised a permanent and most potent influence " especially on Howe's behaviour, and that Howe's military skills thereafter " were apt to fail him at the very moment when they were especially wanted.
A century later, British historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan would write in a study of the American Revolution, when talking about the impact of the victories at Trenton and Princeton, that " It may be doubted whether so small a number of men ever employed so short a space of time with greater and more lasting effects upon the history of the world.
When his paternal grandfather, Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, died, George traced his father's steps to Harrow School and then Trinity College, Cambridge.
George and OM
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George Gilbert Aimé Murray, OM ( 2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957 ) was an Australian born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres.
** Field Marshal ( His Excellency ) Sir George Stuart White, VC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, DCL Oxford, LLD Cambridge and Dublin, born 1835, died 1912, Commander-in-Chief, India 1893 – 1898, Governor of Gibraltar 1900 – 1905, hero of Ladysmith, he won the VC while holding the rank of Major.
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