G. M. Trevelyan

''George Macaulay Trevelyan'' CBE OM (February 16, 1876 Welcombe House, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire <ref>GRO Register of Births: June 1876 6d 641 Stratford - George Macaulay Trevelyan</ref> &ndash; July 21, 1962 Cambridge <ref>GRO Register of Deaths: September 1962 4a 179 Cambridge, aged 86</ref>), was an English historian. Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a consciously dispassionate analysis, that became old-fashioned during his long and productive career.<ref name="hernon">Hernon, Jr., Joseph M. "The Last Whig Historian and Consensus History: George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1876-1962." 'The American Historical Review', 81 (1976): 66-97.</ref> Many of his writings promoted the Whig Party, an important aspect of British politics from the 1600s to the mid-1800s, and of its successor, the Liberal Party. Whigs and Liberals believed the common people had a more positive effect on history than did royalty and that democratic government would bring about steady social progress.<ref name="hernon" /> Trevelyan's history is engaged and partisan. Of his Garibaldi trilogy, "reeking with bias", he remarked in his essay "Bias in History", "Without bias, I should never have written them at all. For I was moved to write them by a poetical sympathy with the passions of the Italian patriots of the period, which I retrospectively shared."<ref name="hernon" />