George Otto Trevelyan

Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838–1928) was a British statesman and historian. The nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, he wrote the classic Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, published in 1876. A Liberal member of Parliament for many years, he served as Chief Secretary for Ireland and Secretary for Scotland under Gladstone. After retiring from politics he wrote The Early History of Charles James Fox and a multivolume history of the American Revolution, sympathetic to the American cause. His son George Macaulay Trevelyan became one of the best-known historians of the twentieth century.