Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (1838-1928)
Sir Leslie Ward, ‘Spy’ (London 1851 -London 1922)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
2 Aug 1873
Materials
paper
Measurements
418 x 280 x 12 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 582358
Summary
Print, caricature, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (1838-1928) by Sir Leslie Ward, ‘Spy’ (London 1851 -London 1922)
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Marks and inscriptions
Back of frame: Old newspaper article - Printed in black ink - VANITY FAIR. LONDON, AUGUST 2, 1873. STATESMEN. - No. CXLIX. MR. GEORGE OTTO TREVELYAN, M.P. A busy, pushing man is Mr Trevelyan - One of the foremost of those who have of late years been hacking as this strange wooden figure of a constitution of ours, and who have left deep marks upon it, beautifying or otherwise. He can scarcely find life long enough for all the forms of activity in which he would indulge. He is in every "movement" that shows itself on the surface of the eddies and whirlpools of our modern politics, so called. He was in the van of that assault upon the purchase system which has for the first time introduced discontent, if not disaffection and insubordination, among the officers of the British army. He is eloquent on the injustice of a state recognition of religious creeds, he believes that drink is the cause of poverty rather than its consolation, and he has devoted himself to the cause of the Bill for the punishment of Thirst. Also he believes in the unlimited extension of the right to choose members of Parliament as a remedy for many things, perhaps even for the incapacity of the members themselves when chosen. For ever writing, speaking, questioning, moving, dividing, agitating, he has, so far, seen his labours bear no inconsiderable fruit. He is a young man as times go, a mere thirty-five years old, and yet he has already been a Lord of the Admiralty for six months, and might still be one but that he resigned his office because he could not endure to see public money given to denominational schools. At Harrow and at Cambridge he learnt a great many things, and besides his speeches, manifestoes, and addresses, he has contributed a certain amount of fugitive literature to his generation. The "Letters of a Competition Wallah" were his, his also were, "The Ladies in Parliament," and his too were some papers of the same order in the now defunct owl. He is a popular Doctrinaire, ready with remedies for all things, and very eager to apply them. He is not always exactly accurate in his facts. His 'Views' are those of an audacious leader-writer for the daily press. He is a liberal. JEHU JUNIOR
Makers and roles
Sir Leslie Ward, ‘Spy’ (London 1851 -London 1922), artist