Charles Trevelyan was a British civil servant and colonial administrator. As a young man, he worked with the colonial government in Calcutta, India; in the late 1850’s and 1860’s he served there in senior-level appointments.
A century and a half later, Trevelyan continues to divide opinion. It has been said that:Trevelyan’s most enduring mark on history may be the quasi-genocidal anti-Irish racial sentiment he expressed during his term in the critical position of administrating relief for the millions of Irish peasants suffering under the Irish famine as Assistant Secretary to HM Treasury (1840–1859) under the Whig administration of Lord Russell.
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