| George Macaulay Trevelyan | |
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| Born | February 16, 1876 Welcombe House, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England |
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| Died | July 21, 1962 (aged 86) Cambridge, England |
| Burial place | Holy Trinity Church, Langdale, Cumbria |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Historian |
George Macaulay Trevelyan CBE OM (February 16, 1876 Welcombe House, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire [1] – July 21, 1962 Cambridge [2]), was an English historian. Events 1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Welcombe Hotel occupies a 19th century former country mansion house near Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire which was previously known as Welcombe House. Stratford-upon-Avon (ˌstrætfɚd əpɒn ˈɛɪvən is a Market town and Civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. Geography Warwickshire is bounded to the northwest by the West Midlands Metropolitan county and Staffordshire, by Leicestershire to England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order of Merit is a British and Commonwealth Order bestowed by the Monarch. Events 1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Welcombe Hotel occupies a 19th century former country mansion house near Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire which was previously known as Welcombe House. Stratford-upon-Avon (ˌstrætfɚd əpɒn ˈɛɪvən is a Market town and Civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. Geography Warwickshire is bounded to the northwest by the West Midlands Metropolitan county and Staffordshire, by Leicestershire to Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland See also History An historian is an individual who studies and writes about History, and is regarded as an Authority on it Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George 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. Sir George Otto Trevelyan 2nd Baronet OM, DC LLD DL (20 July 1838 17 August 1928 was a British Statesman and Author was born in The Whigs (with the Tories) are often described as one of two political parties in England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to [3]
Many of his writings promoted the Whig Party, an important aspect of British politics from the 1600s to the mid-1800s, and of its successor, the Liberal Party. Whigs and Liberals believed the common people had a more positive effect on history than did royalty and that democratic government would bring about steady social progress. [4]
Trevelyan's history is engaged and partisan. Of his Garibaldi trilogy, "reeking with bias", he remarked in his essay "Bias in History", "Without bias, I should never have written them at all. Garibaldi redirects here for other meanings see Garibaldi (disambiguation. For I was moved to write them by a poetical sympathy with the passions of the Italian patriots of the period, which I retrospectively shared. "[5]
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Early Life
Born into Late Victorian Britain, Trevelyan was born in Welcombe in the large house and estate owned by his maternal grandfather, Robert Needham Phillips, a wealthy Lancashire merchant and a Liberal M. P for Bury. Bury is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Irwell, north-northwest of the city of Manchester, west-southwest of Welcombe (today it is a hotel owned by British Rail and Catering to tourists visiting Shakespeare's birthplace). William Shakespeare ( baptised [6]
Trevelyan's parents used Welcombe as a winter resort after they inherited it in 1890. They looked upon Wallington Hall, the Trevelyan family estate in Northumberland as their real home. Wallington ( is a Country house and Gardens located 188km (11 Northumberland is a county in the North East of England. The non-metropolitan county of Northumberland borders Cumbria to the west When his paternal grandfather, Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, died, George traced his father's steps to Harrow and then Trinity College, Cambridge. After attending Harrow School, where he specialized in history, Trevelyan studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was one of the "Cambridge Apostles" and founder of the still existing "Lake Hunt", a "hound and hares" chase where both hounds and hares are human. Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The Cambridge Apostles, also known as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, is an elite intellectual Secret society at the University of Cambridge founded [7] In 1898 he won a fellowship at Trinity with a dissertation that was published the following year as England in the Age of Wycliffe. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common One Trinity professor, Lord Acton, enchanted the young Trevelyan with his great wisdom and his belief in moral judgement and individual liberty. [8]
Role in Education
Trevelyan lectured at Cambridge until 1903 at which point he left academic life. Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting In 1927 he returned to the University to take up a position as Regius Professor of Modern History, where the single student whose doctorate he agreed to supervise was J.H. Plumb (1936). Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sir John Harold Plumb ( 20 August[[ 911]] – 21 October[[ 001]] known as Jack, was a British historian known for his books on British eighteenth In 1940 he was appointed as Master of Trinity College and served in the post until 1951 when he retired. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January
Trevelyan declined the Presidency of the British Academy but served as Chancellor of Durham University from 1950 to 1958. The British Academy is the United Kingdom 's National academy for the Humanities and the Social sciences It was established by Royal Charter Durham University is a University in Durham, England. It was founded as the University of Durham (which remains its official and legal name Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Trevelyan College at Durham University is named after him. Trevelyan College, affectionately known as Trevs, is a college of the University of Durham in North Eastern England. He won the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the biography Lord Grey of the Reform Bill, was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1925, made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950, and was an honorary doctor of many universities including Cambridge. Founded in 1919 the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English Language and are Britain's The British Academy is the United Kingdom 's National academy for the Humanities and the Social sciences It was established by Royal Charter Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as The Royal Society, is a Learned society for science that was founded in 1660 He worked tirelessly through his career on behalf of the National Trust, in preserving not merely historic houses, but historic landscapes. The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organization in England, Wales
Trevelyan's works
G. M. Trevelyan had many works he wrote over the years. Listed below are:
- England in the Age of Wycliffe (1899). The title of this work is somewhat misleading, since it treats of the political, social and relgious conditions of England during the later years of Wiclif's life only. John Wycliffe (ˈwɪklɪf also spelled Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, or Wickliffe) (mid-1320s – 31 December Six of the nine chapters are devoted to the years 1377 - 1385, while the last two treat the history of the Lollard from 1382 until the Reformation. Lollardy was the political and religious movement of the Lollards from the mid- 14th century to the English Reformation. [9]
- England Under the Stuarts (1904).
- 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. Italian Unification ( Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence" was the political and social movement that unified different states of the Italian [10]
- Garibaldi and the Thousand (1909).
- Garibaldi and the Making of Italy (1911). 10-digit ISBN 1842124730, 13-digit ISBN 978-1842124734
- The Life of John Bright (1913).
- Clio: A Muse and Other Essays (1913).
- Scenes From Italy's War (1919).
- The Recreations of an Historian (1919).
- Lord Grey of the Reform Bill (1920).
- British History in the Nineteenth Century (1922).
- Manin and the Venetian Revolution of 1848 (1923).
- History of England (1926).
- England Under Queen Anne:
- Blenheim (1930).
- Ramillies and the Union with Scotland (1932).
- The Peace and the Protestant Succession (1934).
- Sir George Otto Trevelyan: A Memoir (1932).
- Grey of Fallodon (1937).
- The English Revolution, 1688-1698 (1938).
- Trinity College: An Historical Sketch (1943). ISBN 0-903258-01-3
- English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries from Chaucer to Queen Victoria (1944). 10-digit ISBN 058248488X, 13-digit ISBN 978-0582484887
- An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949). ISBN 0-8369-2205-0
- A Layman's Love of Letters (1954).
References
- ^ GRO Register of Births: June 1876 6d 641 Stratford - George Macaulay Trevelyan
- ^ GRO Register of Deaths: September 1962 4a 179 Cambridge, aged 86
- ^ Hernon, Jr. , Joseph M. "The Last Whig Historian and Consensus History: George Macualay Trevelyan, 1876-1962. " JSTOR (2008): 66-97. GMU. George Mason University February 17, 2008. Events 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt. 1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common
- ^ Hernon, Jr. , Joseph M.
- ^ Hernon, Jr. , Joseph M.
- ^ Hernon, Jr. , Joseph M.
- ^ Hernon, Jr. , Joseph M.
- ^ Hernon, Jr. , Joseph M.
- ^ Kriehn, George, “England in the Age of Wycliffe" The American Historical Review 5, No. 1. (1899), 120-122.
- ^ Grey, Nelson H. “Garibaldi’s Defence of the Roman Republic (1907). " The American Historical Review 14, No 1 (2008): 134-136.
- David Cannadine, G. David Nicholas Cannadine (born 1950 is a British historian known for a number of books including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Ornamentalism M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (1998).
- The Master of Trinity at Trinity College, Cambridge
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| Academic offices | ||
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| Preceded by Sir Joseph Thomson |
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1940–1951 |
Succeeded by Edgar Adrian |
| Preceded by The Marquess of Londonderry |
Chancellor of the University of Durham 1950–1957 |
Succeeded by The Earl of Scarbrough |
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| NAME | Trevelyan, George Macaulay |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trevelyan, G. Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Find A Grave is a Website allowing its users to access maintain and expand an online Database of Burial records Sir Joseph John “JJ” Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 &ndash 30 August 1940 was a British Physicist and Nobel laureate Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Edgar Douglas Adrian 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS ( 30 November 1889 &ndash 4 August 1977) was a British electrophysiologist Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart 7th Marquess of Londonderry KG MVO PC (13 May 1878 – 10 February 1949 was an Irish Peer and had Durham University is a University in Durham, England. It was founded as the University of Durham (which remains its official and legal name Lawrence Roger Lumley 11th Earl of Scarbrough, KG, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC, DL ( 27 July 1896 &ndash M. |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1876-02-16 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1962-07-21 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
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