Trevelyan

Other forms: Trevelyans

Definitions of Trevelyan
  1. noun
    English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928)
    synonyms: George Otto Trevelyan, Sir George Otto Trevelyan
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    historian, historiographer
    a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
  2. noun
    English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876-1962)
    synonyms: George Macaulay Trevelyan
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    historian, historiographer
    a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
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