Trevelyan Papers

The papers of the Trevelyans of Wallington in Northumberland (now a National Trust property) were deposited here in 1967. They comprise the papers of: Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), a leading temperance campaigner, amateur botanist and geologist. This collection also includes documents relating to Walter Calverley's wife Pauline (1816-1866), friend of Ruskin, Swinburne, William Bell Scott and a number of the pre-Raphaelites. Charles Edward Trevelyan (1807-1886), whose career encompassed the East India Company and the Home Civil Service. He was Assistant Secretary to the Treasury during the Irish Famine and was co-author of the Northcote-Trevelyan report on the reform of the Civil Service. He inherited Wallington late in life from his cousin Walter Calverley Trevelyan. George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928), son of the above, a historian and Liberal M.P., and Chief Secretary for Ireland after the Phoenix Park murders. Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), son of the above, Liberal and later Labour M.P. He was a founder of the Union of Democratic Control in World War I and was President of the Board of Education in early Labour Governments. Together with his papers are some of those of his wife, Molly (1881-1966), half-sister of Gertrude Bell (q.v.), which include her diaries for the years 1892-1917. There is also a substantial quantity of uncatalogued family correspondence, mainly involving Molly Trevelyan. N.B. The Library does not have the papers as such of the historian G.M. Trevelyan, C.P. Trevelyan's brother, though the collection contains many letters from him to his family. The Library also holds the papers of his daughter, Mary Moorman (q.v.).

This collection contains: Manuscripts