If you’ve ever heard the Irish ballad The Fields of Athenry - mawkish but tuneful, available on YouTube - you will know that the villain of the piece is one Sir Charles Trevelyan, Bt (1807-86).
There’s this poor Irish victim being transported by prison ship to Botany Bay, because he ‘stole Trevelyan’s corn/So the young might see the morn’. The Irish had been reduced to consuming rotten potatoes.
Trevelyan was the Treasury official blamed for not halting the dreadful Irish famine of