Background
He was born in Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, July 20, 1838. He was the only son of Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, and Hannah, daughter of Zachary Macaulay and sister of the historian Lord Macaulay.
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He was born in Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, July 20, 1838. He was the only son of Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, and Hannah, daughter of Zachary Macaulay and sister of the historian Lord Macaulay.
He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.
After studies he went to India in 1862 as secretary to his father, Sir Charles Trevelyan, then financial member of the Council of Calcutta.
In 1865 he was elected to the House of Commons, where he sat as a member from 1868 to 1897. From 1868 to 1870 he was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, from 1880 to 1882 Secretary to the Admiralty, and from 1882 to 1884 Chief Secretary for Ireland. He was Secretary for Scotland in 1886 and again in 1892.
His first work of importance was The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (1876), an excellent biography of his uncle; other works that merit attention are The Early History of Charles James Fox (1880), The American Revolution (4 vols. , 1909), and George III and Charles Fox (2 vols. , 1912 - 1914). Trevelyan wrote history from the Whig point of view, however, and his work on the American Revolution was the object of considerable criticism.
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Trevelyan wrote history from the Whig point of view, however, and his work on the American Revolution was the object of considerable criticism.
Trevelyan married Caroline, daughter of Robert Needham Philips, MP for Bury, in 1869. Their eldest son, Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet, also became a Liberal politician. Their second son R. C. Trevelyan was a poet and translator. The historian G. M. Trevelyan was their third son.
