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Force : Chin-Lushai expedition, 1889–90, in command of Chittagong column : C.B., 1890 : retired : Maj General.

TREVELYAN, SIR CHARLES EDWARD, BARONET (1807–1886)

I.C.S. : Governor : son of George Trevelyan : born April 2, 1807 : educated at Taunton, Charterhouse and Haileybury, 1824–5 : went out to India in the E. I. Co.'s. Civil Service in 1826 : Assistant Commissioner at Delhi : Under Secretary in the Foreign Department of the Government of India, 1831 : took a prominent part with Macaulay (whose sister he married), in favour of education through the medium of English against the Orientalists, and wrote on the subject of Education : Secretary to the Board of Revenue, 1836–8, when he retired : was Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, 1840–59 : did good service in the Irish famine : K.C.B., 1848 : reported in favour of re- forms in the Civil Service, which were generally adopted : was Governor of Madras, March, 1859, to June, 1860, when he was recalled for having published his opposition to the financial proposals of the Government of India : nevertheless he was appointed Financial Member of the Supreme Council, Jan. 1863, to April, 1865 : was always liberal in his views : wrote on Army questions : Baronet in 1874 : died June 19, 1886 : wrote on The Application of the Roman Alphabet to all the Oriental Languages, letters to the Times under the signature of " Indo-philus," etc. etc.

TREVELYAN, SIR GEORGE OTTO, BARONET (1838–)

Born July 20, 1838 : son of Sir Charles Trevelyan (q.v.), and Hannah More, sister of Lord Macaulay : succeeded his father, 1886 : educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge : Scholar : 2nd Classic, 1861 : Hony Fellow : M.P., 1865–97 : held several subordinate posts in the Government, and was Secretary for Ireland, 1882, and Secretary for Scotland, 1886 and 1892 : author of The Competition Wallah, 1864; Cawnpore, 1865; The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, 1876; Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay, 1876 : P.C. : LL.D. : D.C.L.

TREVELYAN, HENRY WILLOUGHBY (1803–1876)

Maj -General : son of George Trevelyan and brother of Sir C. E. Trevelyan (q.v.) : born in 1803 : educated at Addiscombe : entered the Army, 1820 : became Maj-General, 1867 : served in the Persian war, 1856–7 : was at Hallilah Bay : commanded the Artillery Brigade at Reshure, also at Bushire, Khushab and Chagadak : C.B., 1858 : died Aug. 31, 1876.

TREVOR, SIR ARTHUR CHARLES (1841–)

I.C.S. : born at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, April, 1841 : son of Capt. R.S. Trevor, Bengal Cavalry, killed at Kabul, 1841 : educated at St. John's School and Trinity and Lincoln Colleges, Oxford : went to Bombay in the Civil Service, 1861 : Collector of Customs, Bombay, 1879 : Collector of Salt Revenue, 1885 : Commissioner of Customs, Salt, Opium, and Abkari, 1881 : Commissioner in Sind, 1890 : Member of Council, Bombay, 1892 : Member of the Supreme Council, 1895–1901 : C.S.I., 1895 : K.C.S.I., 1898.

TREVOR, GEORGE HERBERT (1840–)

Colonel : born Jan. 29, 1840 : son of Rev. George Trevor, D.D. : educated at Marlborough : entered the Royal Artillery, 1858, and Indian Staff Corps, 1862 : held various appointments in the Political Department, 1867–95 : retiring, as Agent to the Governor-General for Rajputana and Chief Commissioner of Ajmir : C.S.I., 1891.

TREVOR, WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE (1831–)

Maj-General: born Oct. 9, 1831 : son of Capt. R. S. Trevor, murdered at Kabul, 1841 : was a prisoner in Afghanistan 1842 : educated at Addiscombe : entered Bengal Engineers, 1849 : served in Burmi war, 1852–3 : severely wounded : Bhuti war, 1865, received five wounds ; with Lt. Dundas, R.E., gained the V.C. : at the attack on the blockhouse at Dewangiri in Bhutan, April 30, 1865 "they had to climb up a wall which was 14 ft. high, and then to enter a house occupied by some 200 desperate men, head-