If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

In 1940 he was appointed as Master of Trinity College and served in the post until 1951 when he retired. History of England (1926). Clio: A Muse and Other Essays (1913).

". Trevelyan's history is engaged and partisan. 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.