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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay.
British historian and politician (1800–1859)
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About Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay 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. He is best known for his The History of England, a seminal example of Whig history, which expressed Macaulay's belief in the inevitability of sociopolitical progress and has been widely commended for its prose style. Whig historians, including Macaulay, supported the position of the Roundheads in the English Civil War of 1642 to 1651.
Everything about Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay →- Occupation
- historian, politician, poet, poet lawyer
- Position held
- Secretary at War, Paymaster General, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the 16th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- October 25, 1800
- Died
- December 28, 1859, December 27, 1859