Trevelyan, SIR CHARLES

Trevelyan, SIR CHARLES, was born on 2d April 1807, the fourth son of the Archdeacon of Taunton, and was educated at the Charterhouse and Haileybury College. He entered the East India Company's service, and became assistant-secretary to the Treasury (1840–59), governor of Madras (1859–60, being recalled for his protest against new taxes proposed), and Indian finance minister (1862–65). He was created a K.C.B. in 1848, and a baronet in 1874; published several works on educational and philanthropic subjects; and died on 19th June 1886.—His son, the Right Hon. SIR GEORGE OTTO TREVELYAN, by his first wife, Hannah, Lord Macaulay's sister, was born at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, on 20th July 1838. He passed from Harrow to Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated as second classic (1861). In 1865 he was returned for Tynemouth in the Liberal interest, in 1868 for the Border Burghs, and he became a Lord of the Admiralty (1868–70), parliamentary secretary to the Board of Admiralty (1880–82), Chief-secretary for Ireland, as Lord Frederick Cavendish's successor, and a member of the Privy-council (1882–84), chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet (1884–85), and Secretary for Scotland (1886). Defeated in the Borders at the general election (1886) as a Unionist, in August 1887 he regained admission to parliament for Bridgeton (Glasgow) as a Gladstonian, was re-elected in 1892, was Secretary for Scotland (1892–95), and was re-elected in 1895, but retired from public life in February 1897. K.C.B. and D.C.L., he is author of Horace at the University of Athens (1861) and The Ladies in Parliament (1869), two brilliant Aristophanic skits; Letters of a Competition Wallah (1864); Cawnpore (1865); the admirable Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (2 vols. 1876); the Early History of Charles James Fox (1880); and The American Revolution (Part I. 1899).