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Trevelyan and contributed
During his stay in India, Trevelyan contributed " Letters of a Competition Wallah " to Macmillan's Magazine ( republished 1864 ).

Trevelyan and new
Spencer, assisted by George Trevelyan, his new secretary, was now faced with the difficult task of pacifying Ireland.
As a result, the University planned for three new colleges on Elvet Hill, these went on to become Collingwood, Trevelyan and Van Mildert.
In the new Whig government in Britain ( from 1846 ), Charles Trevelyan became assistant secretary to the Treasury, and largely responsible for the British government's response to the famine in Ireland.

Trevelyan and knowledge
Trevelyan believed that the starving Irish could subsist on maize, a grain that they had no knowledge of or experience in preparing.

Trevelyan and connected
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.

Trevelyan and with
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.
Published in 1923, it did not gain the popular acclaim of the Garibaldi volumes, probably because Trevelyan felt less at home with Manin, the bourgeois lawyer, than with Garibaldi, the filibuster.
Already Trevelyan had begun to parallel his nineteenth-century Italian studies with several works on English figures of the same period.
Associated in a sense with the Manchester School through his mother's family, Trevelyan conveys in this biography something of its moral conviction and drive.
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.
* Trevelyan, G. M. England Under Queen Anne: Ramillies and the Union with Scotland.
In this position he worked closely with Sir Charles Trevelyan, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.
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.
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.
Trevelyan in 1910 with his eldest son Theo and father Sir G. O.
One Trinity professor, Lord Acton, enchanted the young Trevelyan with his great wisdom and his belief in moral judgement and individual liberty.
He was afterwards legal secretary to the board ; and after acting as one of the secretaries to the Great Exhibition of 1851, co-operated with Sir Charles Trevelyan in framing the Northcote-Trevelyan Report which revolutionized the conditions of appointment to the Civil Service.
There were many other people who were involved with varying importance and different influences in the early years, from Lena Lamont, part of Sheena Govan's circle, who lived in her caravan with her family and who shunned publicity to those whom Peter Caddy met as he traveled in British New Age circles: among them Robert Ogilvie Crombie ( ROC ); Sir George Trevelyan who formed the Wrekin Trust ; Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, Liebie Pugh, and Joan Hartnell-Beavis.
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 ).
Trevelyan also held with Trinity.
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 ).
Trevelyan College boasts a number of connections with the greater Trevelyan family, some of these include:

Trevelyan and .
Thus Trevelyan repeats the story which pictured Victor Emmanuel as refusing to abandon the famous Statuto at the insistence of General Radetzky.
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.
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.
Characteristically, Trevelyan enjoyed writing the work.
More temperately than in the study of Grey and despite his Liberal bias, Trevelyan vividly sketches the England of pre-French Revolution days, portrays the stresses and strains of the revolutionary period in rich colors, and brings developments leading to the Reform Bill into sharp and clear focus.
In 1924 Trevelyan traveled to the United States, where he delivered the Lowell lectures at Harvard University.
Like Green, Trevelyan aimed to write a history not of `` English kings or English conquests '', but of the English people.
Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.
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.
In four opening chapters reminiscent of Macaulay's famous third chapter, Trevelyan surveys the state of England at the opening of the eighteenth century.
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.
Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.
* 1876 – George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian ( d. 1962 )
* G. M. Trevelyan Shortened History of England Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-023323-7 ; an old classic
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.

contributed and considerable
The food and beverage industry holds considerable clout in Washington, DC, as it has contributed more than $ 50 million to legislators since 2000.
William Jolitz had considerable experience with prior BSD releases while at the University of California at Berkeley ( 2. 8 and 2. 9BSD ) and both contributed code to Berkeley developed at Symmetric Computer Systems during the 1980s.
Bundy's considerable intellectual and bureaucratic abilities as well as close personal relationship with the new President contributed much to evolution of the National Security Advisor position and the new role of the NSC.
Sociologist Ronald Lawson has suggested that it is the religion's intellectual and organizational isolation — coupled with the intense indoctrination of adherents, rigid internal discipline and considerable persecution — that has contributed to the consistency of its sense of urgency in its apocalyptic message.
Airship construction in the first third of the 20th century attracted considerable industry and contributed significantly to Friedrichshafen's relative prosperity.
Trevor-Roper's initial endorsement of the alleged diaries raised questions in the public mind not only about his perspicacity as a historian but also about his integrity, because The Sunday Times, a newspaper to which he regularly contributed book reviews and of which he was an independent director, had already paid a considerable sum for the right to serialise the diaries.
The Swedes contributed 300 timber houses to the town while the rest of Denmark including Greenland and the Faroes raised the considerable sum of 8 million Danish crowns to help rebuild the town.
He contributed to the Anarchiad, a series of satirico-political papers, and in 1787 published a long and ambitious poem, The Vision of Columbus, which gave him a considerable literary reputation and was once much read.
As Rector, he contributed largely to various reviews on literary subjects, and took a considerable interest in social science, even presiding over a section at a congress in 1876.
The conclusion can be drawn that Wilder's strengths as a compelling storyteller and Lane's considerable skills in dramatic pacing and literary structure contributed to an occasionally tense, but fruitful, collaboration between two talented and headstrong women.
La logique, ou l ' art de penser, the Logique de Port-Royal, was an important textbook on logic first published anonymously in 1662 by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, two prominent members of the Jansenist movement ; Blaise Pascal likely contributed considerable portions of the text.
Because the faculty consisted mostly of scholars, they contributed a considerable amount of research which formed the foundation of the field of library science.
In particular, the treatises of Achille Marozzo ( 1536 ), Giovanni Battista Pigna ( 1554 ) and Girolamo Mutio ( 1560 ) have contributed to shed considerable light on the subject.
He had, however, established a connection in 1837 with Blackwood's Magazine, to which he contributed a variety of papers and several tales of extraordinary promise not fulfilled in his more considerable undertakings.
The shallow nature of the seabed on the north of the bay, and the funnelling effect of tsunami and typhoon wave energy, has contributed to certain parts of the Shonan coast having suffered considerable damage, including the destruction of the Kōtoku-in temple housing the Great Buddha, or Daibutsu during the massive tsunami of 1498.
In his influential A History of Australia ( Melbourne University Press 1961 ) Clark wrote: " Mr Thomas Townshend, commonly denominated Tommy Townshend, owed his political career to a very independent fortune and a considerable parliamentary interest, which contributed to his personal no less than his political elevation, for his abilities, though respectable, scarcely rose above mediocrity.
Western society's revulsion to this contributed to a considerable readjustment of valuation of differences.
The light horse had gradually withdrawn back until, at about 11: 00, the main German and Ottoman attack was stopped by well directed fire from the Royal Horse Artillery batteries of the Anzac Mounted Division and by light horse rifle and machine gun fire, to which the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division contributed considerable firepower.
He had never made any other vampire other than Lestat, which contributed to Lestat's considerable power when he was turned.
The regiment's base, located on the southern edge of town around Tapa estate's main building, played a considerable role in the town's life and contributed to the town's continued development.
These Romanesque styles originated in Normandy and became widespread in north western Europe, particularly in England, which contributed considerable development and has the largest number of surviving examples.
He contributed 40 songs to volume 2, and would end up responsible for about a third of the 600 songs in the whole collection as well as making a considerable editorial contribution.
He contributed, however, a considerable number of papers to the Archaeologia and The Gentleman's Magazine.
Watts-Dunton had considerable influence as the friend of many of the leading men of letters of his time ; he enjoyed the confidence of Tennyson, and contributed an appreciation of him to the authorized biography.

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