Walter Calverley Trevelyan
1797–1879
Naturalist. Studied geology under William Buckland at University College, Oxford. A believer in phrenology; opposed capital punishment and flogging, advocated state education, and condemned alcohol, tobacco, and opium. Succeeded to the family estates at Wallington, Northumberland, in 1846; maintained natural history and ethnology collections there.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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