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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.
Another Cambridge friendship, made through his brother Geoffrey, was with G. M. Trevelyan and in Spring 1906 he accompanied the historian during a retracement of the route of Garibaldi s retreat which became the basis for Trevelyan s Garibaldi trilogy.
Rita Angus: An Artist s Life by Jill Trevelyan ( Te Papa Press )
At this point in Dr. Trevelyan s story, Holmes thinks that it would be wise to go to the doctor s Brook Street practice right away to see for himself what this odd case is all about.
The catalepsy was faked, just to keep Doctor Trevelyan busy so that he would not notice the other man going into Blessington s room.
Dr. Trevelyan s brougham is sent to 221B Baker Street to bring Holmes to the scene.

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Thus Trevelyan repeats the story which pictured Victor Emmanuel as refusing to abandon the famous Statuto at the insistence of General Radetzky.
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.
In 1924 Trevelyan traveled to the United States, where he delivered the Lowell lectures at Harvard University.
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.
G. M. Trevelyan hails 1832 as the watershed moment at which "' the sovereignty of the people ' had been established in fact, if not in law.
These traits may have been exaggerated for the purposes of party faction but, notes Trevelyan, nearly all other statesmen of the day were engaged in founding families and amassing estates at the public expense ; Marlborough only differed in that he gave the public much more value for their money.
He was G. M. Trevelyan Lecturer at Cambridge University for 1966-67, and also lectured for six weeks at the State University of New York.
* The Elizabethans and America: The Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge, 1958, London, Macmillan, 1959
He then follows the fleeing Trevelyan through a series of flooded caverns, eventually arriving at the antenna of the control centre's radio telescope.
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.
After attending Harrow, where he specialised in history, Trevelyan studied at Trinity, where he was a member of the secret society, the Cambridge Apostles and founder of the still existing Lake Hunt, a hare and hounds chase where both hounds and hares are human.
Trevelyan lectured at Cambridge until 1903 at which point he left academic life.
Trevelyan College at Durham University is named after him.
The quote was, as Trevelyan puts it, " directed in a kindly spirit at the reforming zeal of a group of junior Fellows ".
She then studied at Trevelyan College, Durham University, reading sociology and anthropology.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his family lived in Weston, at Swiss Villa ( towards the north end of Trevelyan road, see map 1901, Weston-super-Mare ), while he was supervising the construction of the Bristol and Exeter Railway in the area.
That same year he wrote his Horace at the University of Athens, a topical drama in verse, parts of which are said to have offended William Whewell and lost Trevelyan a fellowship.
Other people at the opening include the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, two Pro-Vice-Chancellors, the Bishops of Durham and Ripon ( whose wife, Mary Moorman was a relative of Trevelyan and also present ) and the Mayor and Mayoress of Durham.
The Trevelyan Trust is a charitable fund aimed at providing prizes and bursaries for Trevelyan students.

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* 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
* Alan Strachan, Julia Trevelyan Oman, Leading designer for theatre, ballet and opera ( obituary ), The Independent, 13 October 2003

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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.
* 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.
During the mission, Trevelyan is apparently killed by Colonel Arkady Ourumov, but Bond escapes by commandeering an aeroplane.
This is revealed to be Alec Trevelyanhis execution by Ourumov in the Arkhangelsk facility was faked.
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.
Spencer, assisted by George Trevelyan, his new secretary, was now faced with the difficult task of pacifying Ireland.
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.
The artists Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden OBE ( his second wife ), some of whose work is owned by the college.
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.

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