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Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet.
colonial administrator and historian (1807-1886)
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About Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, was an English civil servant and colonial administrator. As a young man, he worked with the colonial government in Calcutta, India. He returned to Britain and took up the post of Assistant Secretary to the Treasury. During this time he was responsible for facilitating the government's response to the Great Famine in Ireland. In the late 1850s and 1860s, he served there in senior-level appointments. Trevelyan was instrumental in reforming the British Civil Service in the 1850s.
Everything about Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet →- Occupation
- politician, writer
- Position held
- Governor of Madras
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- April 2, 1807
- Died
- June 19, 1886