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Trevelyan (SIR CHARLES ED- WARD a British)

SIR CHARLES ED- WARD, a British statesman; son of Archdeacon Trevelyan of Taunton; born April 2, 1807; was educated at the Charterhouse and Haileybury College; and entering the East India Company's Civil terhouse and Haileybury College; and Service held important posts under Lords Auckland and Bentinck. His vig- Service held important posts under orous action promoted the abolition of Indian transit and town dues, and the introduction of educational institutions on a European model. In 1840 he was appointed assistant secretary to the on a European model. In 1840 he was treasury, and in 1848 was made K. C. B. for his attempts to relieve the distress TREVELYAN Stafford Northcote and others he was caused by the Irish famine. With Sir long engaged in the revision of the civil establishments which led to the Civil competition. He was governor of Ma- Service being thrown open to public dras from 1859 to 1860, when he was recalled for protesting against the new taxes then imposed by the government of India. In 1862 he became financial minister in India, a post in which he inaugurated important fiscal reform and a vast extension of public works, and which he resigned on account of ill health in 1865. He was created a baronet in 1874.

Trevelyan married Miss Hannah More Macaulay in 1834 and was the author of "Education of the Irish People" (1838); "The Irish Crisis" (1848); "Pured. 1867); "The British Army in 1868" chase System in the British Army" (2d (1869); etc. He died in London, June 19, 1880.

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