Trevelyan, Sir George (Lowthian) (1906-1996)

Fourth Baronet, born November 5, 1906, eldest son of the Rt. Hon. Sir C. P. Trevelyan who was Minister of Education in Ramsay MacDonald's first Labour Government in Britain. Sir George grew up with a background of liberal politics and progressive thought. He was educated at Sidcot School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He also worked as an artist-craftsman with Peter Waals workshops 1930-1.

For four years (1932-36), he trained and worked in the Alexander Technique, the psychophysical healing system developed by F. M. Alexander. Then until World War II, he taught at Gordonstown School and Abinger Hill School. During the war, he was a Home Guard Training Captain and following the war taught at No. 1 Army College, Newbattle Abbey (1945-47). On retirement for the Army, he became principal of Attingham Park, the Shropshire Adult College, where he did pioneering work in the teaching of spiritual knowledge as adult education.

On his retirement in 1971, he founded the Wrekin Trust, one of the pioneering New Age organizations, concerned with dissolving the barriers between science and religion. The trust held important conferences on science in relation to mysticism, with papers from such distinguished individuals as Prof. Glen W. Schaefer, Prof. Joscelyn Godwin, and Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. These conferences provided a nexus of early New Age networks. As the new age developed Trevelyan authored a number of books reflecting on the growing vision and offering the movement his mature insights.

He died February 7, 1996.

Sources:

Tarne, Ingham. "A Little Lower Than the Angels… and Crowned with Glory." Meditation 3, no. 4 (Fall 1988): 24-28.

Trevelyan, George. The Active Eye in Architecture. N.p., 1977.

——. Operation Redemption. Wellingborough, Northamptionshire, England: Turnstone Press, 1981.

——. A Vision of the Aquarian Age. London: Stillpoint, 1984.

Trevelyan, George, and Edward Marchett. Twelve Seats at the Round Table. Jersey: Neville Spearman, 1976.