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Noun: Trevelyan  tri'vel-yun
  1. English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876-1962)
    - G. M. Trevelyan, George Macaulay Trevelyan
     
  2. English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928)
    - Sir George Trevelyan, George Otto Trevelyan, Sir George Otto Trevelyan

Type of: historian, historiographer

Encyclopedia: Trevelyan, Mary Caroline