G.M. Trevelyan’s Two Terrible Things
John Vincent, 19 June 1980
George Macaulay Trevelyan: A Memoir
by Mary Moorman.
Hamish Hamilton, 253 pp., £9.95, April 1980,0 241 10358 4 Show More
by Mary Moorman.
Hamish Hamilton, 253 pp., £9.95, April 1980,
Public and Private
by Humphrey Trevelyan.
Hamish Hamilton, 208 pp., £8.95, February 1980,0 241 10357 6 Show More
by Humphrey Trevelyan.
Hamish Hamilton, 208 pp., £8.95, February 1980,
“... was a third-generation arriviste. His grandfather, Sir Charles Trevelyan, Trollope’s Sir Gregory Hardlines, pushed his way from nothing to the top of the Civil Service, marrying Macaulay’s sister on the way. His father pushed his way into high politics, marrying a cotton fortune on the way. G.M. Trevelyan himself was pushed into the Mastership of ... ”