George Lowthian Trevelyan Bt (1906 - 1996)

Born 5 Nov 1906 in London, England, United Kingdom

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Died 9 Feb 1996 at age 89 in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

George first became a History teacher at Gordonstoun School, pioneering radical education methods. After World War II, in 1948, he became the Warden at Attingham Park, a pioneering adult education college in Shropshire, from where he retired in 1971 to found the Wrekin Trust, an educational charity. He was subsequently associated with the Soil Association, the Findhorn Foundation, the Teilhard de Chardin Society and the Essene Network. In the last 15 years of his life he was the focus of many lecture tours and meetings. He also wrote numerous books, including A Vision of the Aquarian Age (1977), Operation Redemption (1981), Summons to a High Crusade (1985) and finally Exploration into God (1991). He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1982 for "educating the adult spirit to a new non-materialistic vision of human nature."

Sources

• Laura Trevelyan, A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World (I.B. Taurus, 2012), p. viii.

• "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZD-TSN3 : 27 October 2021), George Lowthian Trevelyan, 1996.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Trevelyan,_4th_Baronet