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Trevelyan centers too exclusively on Bright, is insufficiently appreciative of the views of Bright's opponents and critics, and makes light of the genuine difficulties faced by Peel.
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Already Trevelyan had begun to parallel his nineteenth-century Italian studies with several works on English figures of the same period.
Yet in several chapters on Scotland in the eighteenth century, Trevelyan copes persuasively with the tangled confusion of Scottish politics against a vivid background of Scottish religion, customs, and traditions.
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.
To this day the family's shield bears a white horse rising from the waves .. Based on the above, in Cornish author Craig Weatherhill's The Lyonesse Stone trilogy ( The Lyonesse Stone, Seat of Storms, The Tinners ' Way ), the Trevelyan family, drawn into the worlds of ancient Cornish legend, are direct descendants of the Lyonesse flood survivor.
*" Down In Poverty Row " ( w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan )-Dan W. Quinn on Berliner-George J. Gaskin on Edison
Trevelyan attempts to re-align it in a final attempt to restore contact with the GoldenEye, but Bond ultimately destroys machinery vital to controlling the antenna and defeats Trevelyan in a gunfight on a platform above the dish.
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.
When H. A. L. Fisher in 1928 gave the Raleigh Lecture on The Whig Historians, from Sir James Mackintosh to Sir George Trevelyan he implied that " Whig historian " was adequately taken as a political rather than a progressive or teleological label ; this put the concept into play.
Trevelyan believed that the starving Irish could subsist on maize, a grain that they had no knowledge of or experience in preparing.
When the first Gladstone ministry was formed in December 1868, Trevelyan was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty, but resigned in July 1870 on a point of conscience connected with the government Education Bill.
As a result, the University planned for three new colleges on Elvet Hill, these went on to become Collingwood, Trevelyan and Van Mildert.
Further details can be found on on the Trevelyan College Pool Wiki page
The college arms are modelled closely on the arms of the Trevelyan family, whose crest features a swimming horse, commemorating the legend of the first Trevelyan, who swum his horse from St Michael's Mount to the mainland of Cornwall for a wager, the other knights of Arthur's court having drowned.
The Trevelyan Society is the alumni organisation of the college, whose aims are to inform alumni of goings on in college as well as to keep alumni in touch with each other.
They eventually contacted Coxswain Trevelyan Richards and asked him to put the lifeboat on standby in case the helicopter rescue failed.
Neil Brockman, the son of Nigel Brockman, got to the lifeboat station on time, but was turned down for the trip by Trevelyan Richards, who was reluctant to take out two members of the same family that night.
Putnam published Reavey's first book, Faust's Metamorphoses in 1932, a series of twenty vers libre monologues based on Christopher Marlowe's Faust with illustrations by S. W. Hayter who worked with Trevelyan at Atelier 17.
His 1936 doctorate on the social structure of the House of Commons of England under William III was supervised by G. M. Trevelyan ; this was the unique occasion when Trevelyan accepted a student.
Trevelyan and Bright
In the story of Bright and the Corn Law agitation, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the franchise struggle Trevelyan reflects something of the moral power which enabled this independent man to exercise so immense an influence over his fellow countrymen for so long.
* G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright ( London: Constable, 1913 ).
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Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.
Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.
Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.
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.
During the mission, Trevelyan is apparently killed by Colonel Arkady Ourumov, but Bond escapes by commandeering an aeroplane.
This is revealed to be Alec Trevelyan — his execution by Ourumov in the Arkhangelsk facility was faked.
English historian G. M. Trevelyan saw it as the bridging point between economic and political history, reflecting that, " Without social history, economic history is barren and political history unintelligible.
Trevelyan College at Durham University is named after him.
The lyrics say the convict's crime is that he " stole Trevelyan's corn "; this is a reference to Charles Edward Trevelyan, a senior British civil servant in the administration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Dublin Castle.
Trevelyan College, also known colloquially as Trevs, is a college of the University of Durham in North Eastern England.
Trevelyan College is noted in Durham for its friendly atmosphere and degree results ; it currently heads the collegiate academic league with 87. 2 % of those who graduated in 2006 doing so with first or upper second class degrees and has topped the collegiate academic league tables for 6 of the past 7 years ( as of 2010 ).
Although Trevelyan is a separately registered higher educational institution ( HEI ),
The internal construction of Trevelyan is very unusual, comprising a string of hexagon-shaped blocks resulting in most rooms containing somewhat unusual angles.
Trevelyan College Boat Club is one of the few college rowing teams to qualify for Henley Royal Regatta.
Trevelyan College has the most 8-ball pool teams of any college ( along with The College of St. Hild and St. Bede ( as of 2011 )-which is surprising since it is one of the smaller colleges ).
The artists Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden OBE ( his second wife ), some of whose work is owned by the college.
Professor H. Martyn Evans is the current Principal of Trevelyan College, having previously been principal of John Snow College.
The Trevelyan Trust is a charitable fund aimed at providing prizes and bursaries for Trevelyan students.
He is also known for his film work playing such roles as Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye, Jason Locke in Essex Boys, Odysseus in Troy, Ian Howe in National Treasure and Andy McNab in Bravo Two Zero.
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Spencer, assisted by George Trevelyan, his new secretary, was now faced with the difficult task of pacifying Ireland.
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Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.
Trevelyan estimates Villeroi ’ s casualties at 13, 000, but adds, ‘ his losses by desertion may have doubled that number ’.
* The Trevelyan family of Cornwall takes its coat of arms from a local legend, in which a man named Trevelyan escaped the innundation by riding a white horse.
Led by Chamberlain and Sir George Trevelyan, the Round Table Conference was an attempt to see if reunion of the Liberal party was possible.
This, bringing the History down to the death of William III, was prepared for publication by his sister, Lady Trevelyan, after his death.
Bond and Natalya escape from Trevelyan, but are arrested by the Russian police and taken to the military archives for interrogation.
The movie was directed by George Foster Platt and written by Francis Trevelyan Miller.
Trevelyan was born into late Victorian Britain in Welcombe, Stratford-on-Avon, the large house and estate owned by his maternal grandfather, Robert Needham Philips, a wealthy Lancashire merchant and the Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bury.
* Trinity College An Historical Sketch by G. M. Trevelyan ( 1943 )
They were claimed by the late Earl's third cousin Frederick Joseph Trevelyan Perceval, who lived in Canada.
During the opening, a serenade in three movements composed by Sir Malcolm Arnold, whose daughter was in the first intake of students, called " The Trevelyan Suite " was played.
Approximately 320 fully catered students can be housed in the building, and around 600 are members of the college, making Trevelyan the third smallest of Durham's seventeen colleges, and the smallest of those maintained by the university council.
Trevelyan has several scholarships and prizes that are awards to members of the college, some founded by the Trevelyan Trust, others from private donors.
At Cambridge began to get interested in historical scholarship, attending lectures by amongst others G. M. Trevelyan and Helen Maude Cam.
The famed progenitor of Bedlington was a dog named " Old Flint ", whelped in 1782 and owned by " Squire Trevelyan.
* Rights of Way: a guide to law and practice 4th Edition-Paul Clayden and John Trevelyan ( 2007 )-published by The Ramblers ' Association-ISBN 13: 978-1-901184-99-0
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