The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

G. M. Trevelyan

George Macaulay Trevelyan CBE OM (February 16, 1876 Welcombe House, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire - July 21, 1962 Cambridge ), 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

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