Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet, Personal Computer was a British Liberal, and later Labour, politician and landowner.
Background
Born into a liberal aristocratic family (see Trevelyan baronets of Nettlecombe, 1662), Charles was the eldest son of Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Caroline, daughter of Robert Needham Philips Member of Parliament. He was the grandson of Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, the elder brother of R. C. Trevelyan and G. M. Trevelyan and the great-nephew of Lord Macaulay. He was the great-great grandson of Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (1735–1828).
Career
He served as President of the Board of Education in 1924 and between 1929 and 1931 in the first two Labour administrations of Ramsay MacDonald. legend traced their ancestry to Sir Trevillian, one of King Arthur"s knights, who swam ashore on horseback when Lyonesse sank. The family kept three houses year round: Wallington Hall, which the family had owned since 1777, Welcombe House, and a town house in Westminster. The family estates comprised more than 11,000 acres.
After Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, Charles Philips decided upon a political career. was first a Liberal and later a Labour Member of Parliament. Despite this, his own privileges and gentlemanly pursuits always remained intact.
In the 1918 general election he lost his Elland seat, running as an Independent Labour candidate. In 1924 he was sworn of the Privy Council.
In 1928 he succeeded his father as third Baronet. In early 1939, following Stafford Cripps and with Aneurin Bevan among others, was briefly expelled from the Labour Party for persisting with support for a "popular front" (involving co-operation with the Liberal Party and Communist Party) against the National Government.
Apart from his political career was also Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland between 1930 and 1949. married Mary Katherine Bell, a younger half-sister of Gertrude Bell and the daughter of Sir Thomas Bell, 2nd Baronet.
They had six children including his first born, Sir George, whom he disinherited. He passed Wallington Hall, which he had inherited in 1928, to the National Trust, the first such property to be owned by the Trust. He died in January 1958, aged 87.
Politics
His eventual political achievements were uneven. In 1914, also, he founded the Union of Democratic Control an all-party organisation rallying opposition to the war.
Membership
26th United Kingdom Parliament. 27th United Kingdom Parliament. 28th United Kingdom Parliament.
29th United Kingdom Parliament.
30th United Kingdom Parliament. 32nd United Kingdom Parliament.
33rd United Kingdom Parliament. 34th United Kingdom Parliament.
35th United Kingdom Parliament]
As member of the landed gentry serving in the Labour Party, he was considered by some to be a walking anachronism.
Trevelyan was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Elland, Yorkshire, in a by-election in 1899. He was a member of Ramsay Macdonald"s Labour cabinets as President of the Board of Education between January and November 1924 and between 1929 and 1931, when the Labour government collapsed. He was the last surviving member of the first British Labour Cabinet.