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Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet

The Right Honourable
Sir George Trevelyan
Bt OM
George Otto Trevelyan portrait early career.jpg
Sir George Trevelyan, Bt
Chief Secretary for Ireland
In office
9 May 1882 – 23 October 1884
Monarch Queen Victoria
Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by Lord Frederick Cavendish
Succeeded by Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office
29 October 1884 – 9 June 1885
Monarch Queen Victoria
Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by John George Dodson
Succeeded by Henry Chaplin
Secretary for Scotland
In office
8 February 1886 – March 1886
Monarch Queen Victoria
Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by The Duke of Richmond
Succeeded by The Earl of Dalhousie
In office
18 August 1892 – 21 June 1895
Monarch Queen Victoria
Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
The Earl of Rosebery
Preceded by The Marquess of Lothian
Succeeded by The Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Personal details
Born 20 July 1838 (1838-07-20)
Rothley Temple, Leicestershire
Died 17 August 1928 (1928-08-18) (aged 90)
Wallington, Northumberland
Nationality British
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Caroline Philips
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge

Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet OM PC (20 July 1838 – 17 August 1928) was a British statesman and author. In a ministerial career stretching almost 30 years, he was most notably twice Secretary for Scotland under William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery. He broke with Gladstone over the 1886 Irish Home Rule Bill, but after modifications were made to the bill he re-joined the Liberal Party shortly afterwards. Also a writer and historian, Trevelyan published The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, his maternal uncle, in 1876.

Trevelyan was born in Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, the only son of Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, and Hannah, daughter of Zachary Macaulay and sister of the historian Lord Macaulay. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society, and earned second place in the first class of the Classical Tripos in 1861. That same year he wrote his Horace at the University of Athens, a topical drama in verse, parts of which are said to have offended William Whewell and lost Trevelyan a fellowship. He was a Cambridge Apostle.


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