Very scarce. 1848 disbound, delicately held together, small holes and some sunning to title-page and front paper cover and '1033/2' in pencil and loss to lower right without text loss and very faint 'Wilberforce Museum Hull ' stamp, occasional marking to pages which are browned, occasional paragraphs marked by pencil line to margin, rear end paper cover page with small tear and some creasing and circular stamp 'Wilberforce Museum Hull', Copac two copies York Minster and Lambeth Palace, Worldcat one copy University of York. George Trevor (1809 - 1888) Oxford graduate, high Anglican cleric, contemporary of John Stuart Mill at the East India House, London as clerk and acquainted with Benjamin D'Israeli. On ordination as a deacon then priest, Trevor resigned the clerkship and was appointed chaplain to the East India Company (1836 - 1845) for the first year in the Madras establishment and then at Bangalore and re-establishing the Tamil mission and supervising the building of a church and the increase of children at school. Whilst chaplain, his Sermons were published by the Bishops' College Press in Calcutta, 1844. He returned to York to sa succesion of clerical appointments. A Brief Sketch was published in 1848 at the time Trevor had become the resident deputy for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel of Foreign Parts, the evangelising body founded by the Church of England in 1701. A ready communicator, Trevor later fulfilled other clerical posts and wrote on religion and nations visited, including India Russia, Egypt. He wrote too on Anglicanism and Catholicism. In Brief Sketch, Trevor is quite direct. If the limit of a Christian body is just to provide ministers and to the circulation of religious texts and very latterly the conversion of 'heathens' , Trevor is adamant, this was 'fallicious' and he seeks, in this document, to 'rescue' the church and its more active members.