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TREVELYAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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; Trevelyan
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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; Trevelyan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
Context examples:
He proposes to call at about quarter past six to-morrow evening, if Dr. Trevelyan will make it convenient to be at home.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He has been for some years a victim to cataleptic attacks, on which, as is well known, Dr. Trevelyan is an authority.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Might the whole story of the cataleptic Russian and his son be a concoction of Dr. Trevelyan’s, who has, for his own purposes, been in Blessington’s rooms?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have never been a very rich man, Mr. Holmes—never made but one investment in my life, as Dr. Trevelyan would tell you.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“One or two of them are so trivial,” said Dr. Trevelyan, “that really I am almost ashamed to mention them. But the matter is so inexplicable, and the recent turn which it has taken is so elaborate, that I shall lay it all before you, and you shall judge what is essential and what is not.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Good-night, Dr. Trevelyan,” said he.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
