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George Otto Trevelyan, 2d baronet

1838–1928

Politician and author. Educated at Harrow school and Trinity College, Cambridge. Travelled in India, 1857. Liberal MP and government minister. Took over as chief secretary of Ireland following the assassination of Frederick Cavendish in Dublin in 1882. An enthusiast for Latin and Greek classics. Author of works on Anglo-Indian politics and the American War of Independence.

Source

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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