George Macaulay Trevelyan OM CBE FRS (1876 - 1962)

Born 16 Feb 1876 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 20 Jul 1962 at age 86 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

George Trevelyan was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

George Trevelyan OM CBE FRS is an English Author.

George Macaulay Trevelyan was born on 16 February 1876. He was the son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan 2nd Bt. and Caroline Philips.^[1]

George was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. He graduated Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Master of Arts (M.A.) 1900, He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author.

UK Census Date 31 March 1901: Living with his parents, brother Charles and eight servants in Grosvenor Crescent, St George Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, England. Aged 25.

Occupation: FELLOW OF TRINITY

He married Janet Penrose Ward (daughter of Thomas Humphry Ward and Mary Augusta Arnold) on 19 March 1904.

They had three children.

During World War I he commanded a British Red Cross ambulance unit on the Italian front; his defective eyesight meant he was unfit for military service.

Shocked by the horrors of the Great War he became more appreciative of conservatism as a positive force, and less insistent that progress was inevitable. In History of England (1926) he searched for the deepest meaning of English history.

He was invested as Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 1920.

In 1923 he attended the opening of the Memorial Library at King Edward School in his home town of Stratford upon Avon, presenting the Library bookcases and the bronze memorial tablet.^[2]

He returned to the University of Cambridge and was Regius Professor of History from 1927 to 1943. He served as Master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951.

In retirement, he was Chancellor of Durham University.

His wife passed away in 1956.

He passed away in 1962 at the age of 86.^[3]

Burial

Holy Trinity Churchyard, Chapel Stile, South Lakeland District, Cumbria, England^[4]

Bibliography

• England in the Age of Wycliffe, 1368–1520 (1899).[15] His first book, based on his PhD thesis. The title of this work is somewhat misleading, since it concentrates on the political, social and religious conditions of England during the later years of Wycliffe's life only. Six of the nine chapters are devoted to the years 1377–1385, while the last two treat the history of the Lollards from 1382 until the Reformation. The work is critical of Roman Catholicism in favor of Wycliffe.[16]
• England Under the Stuarts (1904).[17] Covers 1603 to 1714.[18]
• The Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith (1906).
• Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic (1907). This volume marks the entry of a new foreign historian in the field of Italian Risorgimento, a period much neglected, or, unworthily treated, outside of Italy.[19]
• Garibaldi and the Thousand (1909).[20]
• Garibaldi and the Making of Italy (1911). ISBN 978-1-84212-473-4[21]
• The Life of John Bright (1913).[22]
• Clio, A Muse and Other Essays (1913).[23]
• Scenes From Italy's War (1919).[24]
• The Recreations of an Historian (1919).
• Lord Grey of the Reform Bill (1920).
• British History in the Nineteenth Century, 1782–1901 (1922).[25]
• Manin and the Venetian Revolution of 1848 (1923).[26]
• History of England (1926; 3rd edition, 1945).[27]
• England Under Queen Anne (3 vols.) (1930–4)[28] His magnum opus in 3 volumes: "Blenheim" (1930), "Ramillies and the Union with Scotland" (1932), "Peace and the Protestant Succession" (1934).
• Sir George Otto Trevelyan: A Memoir (1932).
• Grey of Fallodon (1937).
• The English Revolution, 1688–1698 (1938).[29] Portrays James II as a tyrant whose excesses led directly to the Glorious Revolution, becoming a standard work.
• A Shortened History of England (1942).[30]
• English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries: Chaucer to Queen Victoria (1942 US and Canada, 1944 UK). ISBN 978-0-582-48488-7.[31] Published during the darkest days of World War Two, it painted a nostalgic picture of England's glorious past as the beacon of liberty and progress, stirring patriotic feelings and becoming his best selling book, also his last major history book.
• Trinity College: An Historical Sketch (1943). ISBN 0-903258-01-3
• An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949). ISBN 0-8369-2205-0
• A Layman's Love of Letters (1954).

Sources

1. ↑ "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XDZ-LKN : 1 October 2014), George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1876; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006,"
2. ↑ https://kes.net/files/cms/8_History-of-the-School-Buildings.pdf
3. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVCK-T4C8 : 4 September 2014), George M Trevelyan, 1962; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006,"
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15553672/george-macaulay-trevelyan

• "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q273-XHG4 : 10 December 2017), George M Trevelyan, St Margaret And St John The Evangelist Westminster, London,Middlesex, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census,
• "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9HV-GY7 : 8 April 2016), Geo M Trevelyan in household of Geo O Trevelyan, St George Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, England; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census,"

See Also:

• Laura Trevelyan, A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World (I.B. Taurus, 2012), p. viii.
• The Peerage
• Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._M._Trevelyan#cite_note-frs-1