biography
| name: |
Trevelyan, Sir George Otto
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pronunciation:
[trevelyan]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1838–1928)
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in Leicestershire, C England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, entered parliament in 1865 as a Liberal, and became a Lord of the Admiralty (1868–70), parliamentary secretary (1880–2), chief secretary for Ireland (1882–4), and secretary for Scotland (1886, 1892–5). He wrote a number of historical works, among them the famous biography of his uncle, Macaulay (1876), and the American Revolution (1909). |
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