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Up for sale a RARE! "2nd Baronet" Sir George Trevelyan Hand Signed Album Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, OM, PC, FBA (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.

In 1862 Trevelyan went out as a civil servant to India, where he spent several

years. In 1865 he was elected Liberal Member of

Parliament (MP) for Tynemouth and North Shields. At the general election of 1868 he was returned

for the Hawick

Burghs, which he continued to represent until 1886. When the first Gladstone ministry was

formed in December 1868, Trevelyan was appointed Civil Lord

of the Admiralty, but resigned in July 1870 on a point of conscience

connected with the government Education Bill. He advocated a sweeping reform of

the army, including the abolition of the purchase of commissions, and both in

and out of parliament he was the foremost supporter for many years of the

extension of the county franchise. In the session of 1874 he brought forward

his Household Franchise (Counties) Bill, which was lost on the second reading –

it was not till ten years later that the agricultural labourer was

enfranchised. Among other causes which he warmly supported were women's

suffrage, a thorough reform of metropolitan local government, and the drastic

reform or abolition of the House of Lords. He was also in favour of the direct veto and

other temperance legislation. In 1880 Trevelyan was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty under Gladstone.

He held this office until May 1882, when, after the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish,

he became Chief Secretary for

Ireland and sworn of the Privy

Council. From November 1884 to June 1885 he was Chancellor

of the Duchy of Lancaster with a seat in the cabinet. In February

1886 he became Secretary for Scotland and

Vice-President of the Scottish Education Department in Gladstone's third

administration, but resigned in March over Irish Home Rule. The same

year he succeeded his father in the baronetcy. At the general election of 1886

Trevelyan lost his seat for Hawick. As

a representative of the Liberal Unionist Party he

took part in the Round Table Conference, and, being satisfied with the changes

made by Gladstone in his Home Rule scheme, he formally rejoined the Liberal

Party. In August 1887 he re-entered the House of Commons as member for Glasgow Bridgeton. From

1892 to 1895 he was again Secretary for Scotland and Vice-President of the

Scottish Education Department. He resigned his seat in parliament in early

1897 and retired into private life. In 1911 he was appointed a member of

the Order of Merit. During his

stay in India, Trevelyan contributed "Letters of a Competition

Wallah" to Macmillan's an account of the massacre there during the Indian Rebellion of 1857,

was published in 1865. In 1867 he wrote The Ladies in Parliament, a

humorous political brochure in verse. In 1876 he published The Life and

Letters of Lord Macaulay (a second, enlarged edition appeared in

1908), and in 1880 he published The Early History of Charles James Fox. In 1899 he published the first volume

of a History of the American Revolution, which was completed (three

volumes) in 1905. In the latter year, as Interludes in Prose and Verse,

he republished his early classical "jeux

d'esprit" and Indian pieces. He published two volumes of his

work George III and Charles Fox in 1912 and 1914. 

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