Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, KCB was an English civil servant and colonial administrator. As a young man, he worked with the colonial government in Calcutta, India; in the late 1850s and 1860s he served there in senior-level appointments. Today Trevelyan is mostly remembered for his relucantance to disburse direct government food and monetary aid to the Irish during the famine of 1847 due to his strong belief in laissez-faire economics.