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George Macaulay Trevelyan OM CBE FRS FBA (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the University of Cambridge and was Regius Professor of History from 1927 to 1943.
G. M. Trevelyan was an English historian whose work, written for the general reader as much as for the history student, shows an appreciation of the Whig tradition in English thought and reflects a keen interest in the Anglo-Saxon element in the English constitution.
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George Macaulay Trevelyan. During the immediate aftermath of the First World War, G.M. Trevelyan was an impressive, though characteristically modest and unassuming, figure in the small Hertfordshire community where he had at that time made his home.
Aug 12, 2023 · George Macaulay Trevelyan ( 16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was an English historian and academic. Contents. 1 Quotes. 1.1 British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782–1901) (1922) 1.2 England Under Queen Anne: Blenheim (1930) 1.3 England Under Queen Anne: Ramillies and the Union with Scotland (1932)
Overview. G. M. Trevelyan. (1876—1962) historian, public educator, and conservationist. Quick Reference. (1876–1962), historian, son of Sir G. O. Trevelyan, was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Apostles.
Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876–1962) © The Master and Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge. Considered by himself and others the last of the Whig historians, Trevelyan was extremely popular with the general public for his works on English history and on Garibaldi.
George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962) is a name scarcely familiar in most twentieth-century households. Yet during the first half of this century he was the most famous, honored, influential, and...
