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Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron (English historian, essayist, and statesman) was born in the house of an uncle in Rothley Temple, Leicestershire. His father, Zachary Macaulay, the son of a Presbyterian minister from the Hebrides, had been governor of Sierra Leone; an ardent philanthropist and an ally of William Wilberforce, who fought for the abolition of slavery, he was a man of severe evangelical piety. Macaulay's
mother, a Quaker, was the daughter of a Bristol bookseller. Thomas
was the eldest of their nine children. He
died in Campden Hill, London, December 28, 1859.
His career: Whig Politician, essayist, poet, historian; 1830
elected to parliament; 1834-38 member of Supreme Council in India;
1842 publishes Lays of Ancient Rome; 1843 publishes Collected
Essays, 3 volumes; 1848 publishes first two volumes of History of
England (to 1861); 1849 Lord Rector of University of Glasgow; 1855
publishes History of England, Vols. III-IV; 1861 the last volume of
the History of England was published by his sister Hannah. Quote:
�The
measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never
would be found out.� For
more information on Thomas Babington Macaulay visit the Encyclopedia
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