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    Grey of Fallodon

    By George Macaulay Trevelyan

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    Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, KG, PC, DL, FZS (1862-1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey prior to his elevation to the peerage he was the 3rd Baronet Grey of Fallodon, was a British Liberal statesman and the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War. An adherent of the “New Liberalism”, he served as foreign secretary from 1905-1916, the longest continuous tenure of any person in that office. He is probably best remembered for his “the lamps are going out” remark on 3 August 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War. He signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement on 16 May 1916 and ennobled that same year, he was Ambassador to the United States between 1919-1920 and Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords between 1923-1924.

    In his own words, renowned British historian George Macaulay Trevelyan’s object of this volume was “to present the man, his character as moulded by circumstance, and his life private and public.” Sir Edward Grey had particularly expressed the desire that his private life, including the twenty years of his first marriage, ought to be an integral part of any biography of him that was written with the help of his family and trust friends, and Trevelyan has successfully achieved this with this biography.

    An unmissable addition to any World War I library.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcole Publishing
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9781789125436
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    George Macaulay Trevelyan

    George Macaulay Trevelyan OM CBE FRS FBA (1876-1962), was a British historian and academic. Trevelyan was born on February 16, 1876 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay. A Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1898-1903, he then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. During World War I, he commanded a British Red Cross ambulance unit on the Italian front, but owing to defective eyesight did not actively serve in the military. He returned to the University of Cambridge and was Regius Professor of History from 1927-1943. He served as Master of Trinity College from 1940-1951. In retirement, he was Chancellor of Durham University (1950-1958), and Trevelyan College at Durham University was named after him. He won the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the biography Lord Grey of the Reform Bill. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1925, and made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. He was an honorary doctor of many universities, including Cambridge. Trevelyan died in Cambridge on July 21, 1962, aged 86.

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