George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet

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Sir George Lowthian Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (born November 5, 1906 in London , † February 7, 1996 ) was a British nobleman and esotericist .

Life

George Trevelyan was born in 1906 as the eldest son of Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet , and his wife Mary Katharine Bell.

After spending most of his youth at his family's country estate - Wallington Hall near Morpeth in Northumberland - Trevelyan studied history at the University of Cambridge . He then taught at the reform pedagogy school Gordonstoun and worked as a furniture designer in the workshop of the carpenter Peter Waals in the Cotswold Hills .

1942 Trevelyan turned a lecture by after visiting Walter Johannes Stein , a student of Rudolf Steiner , the spirituality to. So he dealt with ideas like angels , crystal forces and the concept of organic farming .

In 1948 he worked for Trinity College, an institution for adult education, which he used as a center to propagate his esoteric ideas by offering events on topics such as Finding the Inner Teacher or Holistic Vision .

When his father died in 1958, he inherited his title of nobility as 4th Baronet of Wallington in the County of Northumberland.

After helping found the Findhorn Foundation , Trevelyan created the Wrekin Trust in 1971 to promote spiritual education and research. Trevelyan became one of the foremost thought leaders of the New Age movement.

In 1982 Trevelyan was awarded the Right Livelihood Award - the "Alternative Nobel Prize".

From his marriage to Editha Helen Smith († 1994) in 1940, he left behind a daughter, but no sons, so that his title of nobility fell to his youngest brother Geoffrey as 5th baronet when he died in 1996.

Works (in German translation)

  • A vision of the Aquarian Age. Laws and backgrounds of the "New Age" (Original title: A Vision of the Aquarian Age , 1977). GTP, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980
    • as paperback: Goldmann, Munich 1984
  • Company redemption. Hope for humanity (Original title: Operation Redemption , 1981). GTP, Freiburg im Breisgau 1983; 2. A. Greuth Hof, Kimratshofen 1989, ISBN 3-923662-13-0
  • Salvation through the power of love. A homage to Sathya Sai Baba . Vienna 1986

literature

  • Frances Farrer: Sir George Trevelyan and the new spiritual awakening . Floris Books, Edinburgh 2002.
  • Linus Hauser : Critique of the Neomythischen Vernunft Vol. 3. The fictions of science on the way into the 21st century. Paderborn 2016. pp. 141–150.

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predecessor Office successor
George Trevelyan Trevelyan Baronet, of Wallington
1958-1996 		Geoffrey Trevelyan
personal data
SURNAME Trevelyan, George, 4th Baronet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trevelyan, Sir George Lowthian, 4th Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and esotericist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1996