Trevor obtained his first class degree in mathematics and economics in 1974 from the University of Warwick, and his Doctor of Philosophy in econometric history in 1982 from the University of Wales with the thesis, entitled "Labour productivity in the British coal industry, 1874-1913.".
Trevor spends his academic career at the Cardiff University, where he started in 1976 as tutorial fellowship In 1978 he was appointed lecturer, in 1997 senior lecturer and in 2004 Professor of Accounting & Business History. Nowadays in 2014 he is also Director of Undergraduate Programmes for Economics.
Trevor initially focussed his research on the economic and business history of the British coal industry, particularly about the South Wales Coalfield but in the 1990s started focussing his research on the history of accountancy.
Trevor has been President of the Association of Business Historians, and founding editor or the Accounting, Business & Financial History. R. R. Boyns, Trevor, and John Richard Boyns, Trevor, and John Richard Boyns, Trevor, and John Richard Boyns, Trevor, and John Richard.
