The Trevelyans have finally recognised their ancestors screwed over - well killed - the Irish.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...aura-trevelyan
The former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has said her family would consider paying compensation to Ireland because of an ancestor’s role in the Great Famine of the 19th century.
Her great-great-great-grandfather Sir Charles Trevelyan, a senior British government official, was among those who “failed their people” during the humanitarian catastrophe in the 1840s, she said.
Trevelyan’s comment opened a potential new front in her campaign for restorative justice, which so far has focused on the slave trade. The former BBC correspondent quit the corporation to campaign full-time and in February travelled with relatives to Grenada to apologise and offer £100,000 in reparations for the family’s “ownership” of 1,000 enslaved people on the Caribbean island.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...aura-trevelyan
The former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has said her family would consider paying compensation to Ireland because of an ancestor’s role in the Great Famine of the 19th century.
Her great-great-great-grandfather Sir Charles Trevelyan, a senior British government official, was among those who “failed their people” during the humanitarian catastrophe in the 1840s, she said.
Trevelyan’s comment opened a potential new front in her campaign for restorative justice, which so far has focused on the slave trade. The former BBC correspondent quit the corporation to campaign full-time and in February travelled with relatives to Grenada to apologise and offer £100,000 in reparations for the family’s “ownership” of 1,000 enslaved people on the Caribbean island.
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