| The Right Honourable Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, OM,DC, LLD, DL | |
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| In office 18 December 1868 – 12 July 1870 | |
| Preceded by | Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby |
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| Succeeded by | Robert Haldane-Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdown |
| In office 1865 – 1868 | |
| Preceded by | Richard Hodgson |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Eustace Smith |
MP for Hawick Burghs | |
| In office 1868 – 1886 | |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Laing Brown |
MP for Glasgow Bridgeton | |
| In office 1887 – 1897 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Edward Richard Russell |
| Succeeded by | Sir Charles Cameron |
| Born | July 20, 1838 Edinburgh, England |
| Died | August 17, 1928 (aged 90) |
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet OM,DC, LLD, DL, was a British statesman and author was born in Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, and the only son of Sir Charles Trevelyan and Hannah Moore Macaulay. The Right Honourable (abbreviated as The Rt Hon) is an Honorific prefix that is traditionally applied to certain The Order of Merit is a British and Commonwealth Order bestowed by the Monarch. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were the members of the Board of Admiralty, which exercised command over the Royal Navy. Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Events 1191 - Saladin 's garrison surrenders ending the two-year Siege of Acre. Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Frederick Arthur Stanley 16th Earl of Derby, KG, GCB, GCVO, PC ( 15 January 1841 – 14 June 1908 Robert Adam Philips Haldane Haldane-Duncan 3rd Earl of Camperdown ( 28 May 1841 - 5 June 1918) styled Viscount Duncan from 1859 to A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Tynemouth is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Year 1865 ( MDCCCLXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Hawick Burghs was a District of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918 Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Glasgow Bridgeton was a parliamentary constituency city of Glasgow. Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Edward Richard Russell 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool ( 9 August 1834 - 20 February 1920) was a British journalist and Liberal politician Charles Cameron may refer to Charles Cameron (author, wrote Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji? Charles Cameron (architect Events 1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold Year 1838 ( MDCCCXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. 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 986 - A Byzantine army was destroyed in the pass of Trajan's Gate by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Order of Merit is a British and Commonwealth Order bestowed by the Monarch. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A statesman or stateswoman or statesperson is usually a Politician or other notable figure of State who has had a long and respected career in An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Rothley temple is was a Chapel in Rothley Leicestershire associated with the Knights Templar. Leicestershire (ˈlɛstəʃə(r or ˈlɛstəʃɪə(r abbreviation Leics WikipediaNaming_conventions_(names_and_titles#Other_non-royal_names.
Hannah was the daughter of Zachary Macaulay, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and the sister of British historian Thomas Macaulay. Zachary Macaulay ( 2 May 1768 &ndash 13 May 1838) was a colonial governor Slavery Abolitionist and campaigner The Anti-Slavery Society was the everyday name of two different British organizations
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Education
He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society, and earned 2nd place in the first class of the Classical Tripos in 1861. Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The Cambridge Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Cambridge Union, is a debating society in Cambridge, England and is the The Classical Tripos at Cambridge University is equivalent to Literae Humaniores at Oxford. That same year he wrote his Horace at the University of Athens, a topical drama in verse, parts of which are said to have offended Whewell and lost Trevelyan a fellowship. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνών usually referred to simply as the William Whewell ( May 24, 1794 &ndash March 6, 1866) was an English Polymath, Scientist, Anglican Priest
Office
In 1862 he went out as a civil servant to India, where he spent several years. During his stay he contributed "Letters of a Competition Wallah" to Macmillan's Magazine (republished 1864). Cawnpore, an account of that terrible tragedy, was published in 1865. Year 1865 ( MDCCCLXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year During the same year he was elected as a Liberal MP for Tynemouth. The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s and a third party The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords Tynemouth is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 1867 he wrote The Ladies in Parliament, a humorous political brochure in verse. Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting At the general election of 1868 he was returned for the Hawick Burghs, which he continued to represent until 1886. Hawick Burghs was a District of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918
When the first Gladstone Ministry was formed, in December 1868, Trevelyan was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty, but resigned in July 1870 on a point of conscience connected with the government Education Bill. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were the members of the Board of Admiralty, which exercised command over the Royal Navy. He advocated a sweeping reform of the army, including the abolition of the purchase of commissions, and both in and out of parliament he was the foremost supporter for many years of the extension of the county franchise. In the session of 1874 he brought forward his Household Franchise (Counties) Bill, which was lost on the second reading; it was not till ten years later that the agricultural laborer was enfranchized. Among other causes which he warmly supported were women's suffrage, a thorough reform of metropolitan local government, and the drastic reform or abolition of the House of Lords. The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords" He was also in favour of the direct veto and other temperance legislation. In 1876 he published The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, and in 1880 he published The Early History of Charles James Fox. In the latter year he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty. The office of Secretary to the Admiralty or (from the mid-18th century First Secretary to the Admiralty was formerly an important position within the Admiralty of This office he held until May 1882, when, after the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish, he became for two years Chief Secretary for Ireland and was appointed to the Privy Council. Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (30 November 1836 – 6 May 1882 was an English Liberal politician and protégé of the Prime Minister, The office before 1800 The dominant position of the Lord Lieutenant in the Irish governmental system had been central to the British administration for much of the history of A privy council is a body that advises the Head of state of a nation on how to exercise their executive authority, typically but not always in the context of a From November 1884 to June 1885 he was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is in modern times a Sinecure office in the Government of the United Kingdom. In February 1886 he became Secretary for Scotland, but resigned in March over Home Rule. The Secretary for Scotland was chief minister in charge of the Scottish Office in the United Kingdom government. The same year he succeeded his father in the baronetcy. A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt) or the rare female equivalent a baronetess (abbreviation Btss) is the holder At the general election of 1886 Sir George Trevelyan lost his seat for Hawick. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Hawick Burghs was a District of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918 As a representative of the Liberal Unionist party he took part in the Round Table Conference, and, being satisfied with the modifications made by Gladstone in his Home Rule scheme, he formally rejoined the Liberal party. The Liberal Unionists were a British political party that split away from the Liberals in 1886 and had effectively merged with the Conservatives by the In August 1887 he re-entered the House of Commons as member for Glasgow Bridgeton; and from 1892 to 1895 he was again Secretary for Scotland. Glasgow Bridgeton was a parliamentary constituency city of Glasgow. Early in 1897 he resigned his seat in parliament and retired into private life.
Retirement
In 1899 he published the first volume of a History of the American Revolution, which was completed (3 vols. ) in 1905; in the latter year, as Interludes in Prose and Verse, he republished his early classical jeux d'esprit and Indian pieces. He had married in 1869 Caroline Philips, whose father Mark Philips was MP for Bury. Mark Philips ( 4 November, 1800 &ndash 23 December, 1873) was an English Liberal Party politician and one of the first Bury was a Borough constituency centred on the town of Bury in Lancashire. His eldest son, Charles Philips Trevelyan (b. WikipediaNaming_conventions_(names_and_titles#Other_non-royal_names. 1870), became Liberal M. P. for the Elland division of Yorkshire in 1899, and in 1908 was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in Great Britain. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education was a junior ministerial office in the United Kingdom Government. The second son was R. C. Trevelyan, the artist. Robert Calverl(ey Trevelyan (1872 &ndash 1951 was an English poet and translator of a traditionalist sort and a follower of the lapidary style of Logan Pearsall Smith. The third son, George Macaulay Trevelyan (b. George Macaulay Trevelyan CBE OM ( February 16, 1876 Welcombe House, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire 1876), became well known as a brilliant historical writer, notably with two books on Garibaldi (1907 and 1909) and his Life of John Bright (1911).
Honours
- In 1911 He was appointed as a Member of the Order of Merit. Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The Order of Merit is a British and Commonwealth Order bestowed by the Monarch.
References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
- Leigh Rayment's Baronetage Page.
- Torrance, David, The Scottish Secretaries (Birlinn 2006)
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| Preceded by Richard Hodgson | Member of Parliament for Tynemouth and North Shields 1865–1868 | Succeeded by Thomas Eustace Smith |
| Preceded by (new constituency) | Member of Parliament for Hawick Burghs 1868–1886 | Succeeded by Alexander Laing Brown |
| Preceded by Sir Edward Richard Russell | Member of Parliament for Glasgow Bridgeton 1887–1897 | Succeeded by Sir Charles Cameron |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Lord Frederick Cavendish | Chief Secretary for Ireland 1882–1884 | Succeeded by Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
| Preceded by John George Dodson | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1884–1885 | Succeeded by Henry Chaplin |
| Preceded by The Duke of Richmond | Secretary for Scotland 1886 | Succeeded by The Earl of Dalhousie |
| Preceded by The Marquess of Lothian | Secretary for Scotland 1892–1895 | Succeeded by The Lord Balfour of Burleigh |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by Charles Trevelyan | Baronet (of Wallington) 1886–1928 | Succeeded by Charles Trevelyan |
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