Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Trevelyan Bt KCB
Trevelyan in the 1840s
Born	(1807-04-02)2 April 1807 Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
Died	19 June 1886(1886-06-19) (aged 79) London, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Charterhouse School
Occupation(s)	Civil servant, colonial administrator
Spouses	Hannah More Macaulay ​ ​ (m. 1834; died 1873)​ Eleanor Anne Campbell ​ ​ (m. 1875)​
Parents	Venerable George Trevelyan Harriet Trevelyan

Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, KCB (2 April 1807 – 19 June 1886) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator. As a young man, he worked with the colonial government in Calcutta, India. He returned to Britain and took up the post of Assistant Secretary to the Treasury. During this time he was responsible for facilitating the government's response to the Great Famine in Ireland. In the late 1850s and 1860s he served there in senior-level appointments. Trevelyan was instrumental in the process of reforming the British Civil Service in the 1850s.

Today Trevelyan is mostly remembered for his reluctance to disburse direct government food and monetary aid to the Irish during the famine due to his strong belief in laissez-faire economics.^{[1][page needed]} Trevelyan's defenders say that larger factors than his own acts and beliefs were more central to the problem of the famine and its high mortality.^[2]