ABSTRACT
George Herbert Trevor was born in Bangalore, in southern India, where his father, the Rev. George Trevor, was an East India Company chaplain and later the author of India: An Historical Sketch. Trevor was a sporadic writer of poetry throughout his career. Verses: Mostly Written in India was published under his initials ‘G. H. T.’; most of its contents are not directly related to the author’s experience of India. ‘Dixon Sahib’, a tribute to one of Trevor’s predecessors, presents its subject as a heroic exponent of the ‘Punjab style’ before ever the term was coined: a solitary British administrator whose dedication to the people of India is repaid by their devotion.
