George Macaulay Trevelyan (February 16, 1876 – July 21, 1962), was an English historian, son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan 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. February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 163 days remaining. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Inter. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bt (20 July 1838 - 17 August 1928) was an English statesman and author and the only son of Sir Charles Trevelyan. ... Thomas Macaulay Thomas Babington (or Babbington) Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859) was a nineteenth century British poet, historian and Whig politician. ... This article is about the British Whig party. ...

After attending Harrow School, where he specialized in history, Trevelyan studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was one of the "Cambridge Apostles". In 1898 he won a fellowship at Trinity with a dissertation which was published the following year as England in the Age of Wycliffe. Trevelyan lectured at Cambridge until 1903 at which point he left academic life. 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). In 1940 he was appointed as Master of Trinity College and served in the post until 1951 when he retired. Harrow School Crest Harrow School is a British public school, located in Harrow on the Hill, in North West London. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kings Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College Christ Church Master Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... Trinity College Great Court. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Regius Professor of Modern History is one of the senior professorships in history at Cambridge University, and was founded in 1724 by George I. Regius Professors of History Samuel Harris 1724 Shallet Turner 1735 Laurence Brockett 1762 Thomas Gray 1768 William Smyth 1807 James Stephen 1849 Charles Kingsley 1860 John... Sir John Harold Plumb (1911 – 21 October 2001), known as Jack, was a British historian, known for his books on British eighteenth century history. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

Trevelyan declined the Presidency of the British Academy but served as Chancellor of Durham University from 1950 to 1958. Trevelyan College at Durham University is named after him. He was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1925, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950, and was an honorary doctor of many universities including Cambridge. He worked tirelessly through his career on behalf of the National Trust, in preserving not merely historic houses, but historic landscapes. The British Academy is the United Kingdoms national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. ... Durham University is a university in England. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Trevelyan College, commonly known as Trevs, is a college of the University of Durham in England. ... The British Academy is the United Kingdoms national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The premises of the Royal Society in London. ... The standard of the National Trust The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, NT or The Trust, is an organisation which works to preserve and protect coastline, countryside and buildings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. ...

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. 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."

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Trevelyan's major works

• An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949) ISBN 0836922050
• English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries from Chaucer to Queen Victoria (1942) ISBN 0140233229
• England under Queen Anne (3 vols., 1930 – 34) Considered Trevelyan's greatest mature work.
• Lord Grey of the Reform Bill (1920)
• Shortened History of England ISBN 0140233237
• Trinity College An Historical Sketch ISBN 0903258013
• Garibaldi’s Defence of the Roman Republic (1907, reprinted 1971),
• Garibaldi and the Thousand (1909, reprinted 1948)
• Garibaldi and the Making of Italy (1911, reprinted 1948)

External links

• Mitchell McNaylor, "G.M. Trevelyan"

Reference

• David Cannadine G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (1998)