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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE ( / ˈbæbɪŋtən məˈkɔːli /; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay was an English Whig politician, essayist, poet, and historian best known for his History of England, 5 vol. (1849–61); this work, which covers the period 1688–1702, secured his place as one of the founders of what has been called the Whig interpretation of.
Jul 20, 1998 · Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay - Historian, Writer, Politician: Macaulay’s History of England brought him a secure, if diminished, place among English historians as the founder, with his contemporary Henry Hallam, of what is now known as the Whig interpretation of history.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (October 25, 1800 – December 28, 1859), was a nineteenth century English poet, historian, and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history.
May 23, 2018 · Thomas Babington Macaulay was the precocious eldest son of a Quaker, Selina Mills Macaulay, and the notable Evangelical reformer Zachary Macaulay. A playful, affectionate, humorous man, Macaulay the public figure was combative, cocksure, and fond of exaggeration.
Lord Macaulay, born Thomas Babington (1800-1859), was an English historian, peer, politician, and poet. He was an active opponent of slavery, a supporter of education and equality in India, and instrumental to parliamentary reform to increase representation of cities that had become unrepresented relative to rural areas during the rapid ...
Nov 29, 2022 · Thomas Babington Macaulay (b. 1800–d. 1859) accumulated an unprecedented series of successes—both in sales and critical acclaim—as an English poet, essayist, orator, and, most triumphantly, historian.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay - Historian, Writer, Politician: Macaulay’s exceptional gifts of mind were never, as they have been for many men of genius, a source of calamity or mental anguish.
Macaulay was Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and Paymaster of the Forces from 1846 to 1847. In government he was competent, and he was renowned as an erudite orator, but Macaulay's main interest was literature. In the 1820s he had been a prolific writer for the Edinburgh Review.
Thomas Babington (Macaulay), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian and poet, was buried at the foot of Joseph Addison's statue in Poets' Corner on 9th January 1860.
