17 FEBRUARY 1956, Page 7

DR. G. M. TREVELYAN is eighty this week and the

Regius Pro- fessor of Modern History at Cambridge writes about him on another page. Sir Winston Churchill. Sir George Clark, Professor Butterfield among others intend to establish a Trevelyan Lectureship Fund. It is proposed that there should be a series of historical lectures at Cambridge each year. It is greatly.to be hoped that this proposal will gain the support it deserves. Contributions should be addressed to the Treasurer of the Trevelyan Fund, c/ o Barclays Bank Ltd., Cambridge. Messrs. Longmans, who first published a book by Dr. Tre- velyan some fifty years ago. are also marking the occasion by bringing out an illustrated edition of Trevelyan's History of England.