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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.
Admiral Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim was born here in 1826.
Led by Chamberlain and Sir George Trevelyan, the Round Table Conference was an attempt to see if reunion of the Liberal party was possible.
" To Trevelyan, Marlborough's behaviour during the 1688 revolution was a sign of his ' devotion to the liberties of England and the Protestant religion '.
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.
This, bringing the History down to the death of William III, was prepared for publication by his sister, Lady Trevelyan, after his death.
His great-nephew was the Cambridge historian G. M. Trevelyan.
This is revealed to be Alec Trevelyan — his execution by Ourumov in the Arkhangelsk facility was faked.
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.
George Macaulay Trevelyan, OM, CBE, FRS, FBA ( 16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962 ), was a British historian.
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.
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.
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 was the first president of the Youth Hostels Association and the YHA headquarters are called Trevelyan House in his honour.
Trevelyan was a prolific author:
The quote was, as Trevelyan puts it, " directed in a kindly spirit at the reforming zeal of a group of junior Fellows ".
His mother was Urith Monica Trevelyan, who had training in the Fröbel teaching method.
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.
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.
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.
Barrie and was the inspiration for Nana in the book Peter Pan Others visiting included D. H. Lawrence, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Compton Mackenzie, Bertrand Russell, the historian G. M. Trevelyan, interior decorator Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey.

Trevelyan and born
Raleigh Trevelyan ( born 1923 ) is an author and editor.
A member of the Trevelyan family, he was born in Andaman Islands, he moved to England when he was eight years old, and now resides in both London and Cornwall.
* Philip Trevelyan ( born 1943 ), film director

Trevelyan and only
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.
Potter concluded that " in the long roll of English historical writing from Clarendon to Trevelyan only Gibbon has surpassed him in security of reputation and certainty of immortality ".
The Head of the Treasury, Charles Trevelyan, notoriously decreed that relief was only to be given to workhouse people.
His nephew and biographer Otto Trevelyan wrote in 1876: " His brother-in-law had taken a house in the village of Esher ; and Macaulay accordingly settled himself, with infinite content, exactly in the middle of the only ugly square mile of country which can be found in that delightful neighbourhood.
When the treasonous General Ouromov and Xenia Onatopp attack the station with a stolen Tiger helicopter, she is left the only survivor besides Boris Grishenko, who had allied himself with Ourumov and Alec Trevelyan, the plan's mastermind.
He succeeded Sir Charles Trevelyan as Governor of Madras in June 1860 but served in that capacity only for a few weeks until his death from cholera on 2 August.

Trevelyan and son
Trevelyan in 1910 with his eldest son Theo and father Sir G. O.
* George Macaulay Trevelyan ( 1876 – 1962 ), historian, son of the above
* Sir George Trevelyan ( New Age spiritualist ), 4th Baronet ( 1906 – 1996 ), son of Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet and George Macaulay Trevelyan's nephew
Their eldest son, Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet, also became a Liberal politician.
Their second son R. C. Trevelyan was a poet and translator.
Their third son, G. M. Trevelyan was a historian.
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.
Trevelyan was the second son of Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet and his wife Caroline née Philips, who was the daughter of Robert Needham Philips MP, a Liberal Member of Parliament and textile merchant from Lancashire.
He married the Dutch musician Elizabeth van der Hoeven ; the artist Julian Trevelyan was their son.

Trevelyan and Sir
Many, including Parnell, believed that Chamberlain, having brokered the agreement, would be offered the Chief Secretaryship, but Gladstone appointed Sir George Trevelyan instead.
In this position he worked closely with Sir Charles Trevelyan, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.
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, Sir George O.
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.
* Sir George Otto Trevelyan: A Memoir ( 1932 ).
* Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet ( 1838 – 1928 )
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.
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet OM, PC ( 20 July 1838 – 17 August 1928 ) was a British statesman and author.
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.

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