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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.
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.
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.
Jun 7, 2024 · The following poem by Thomas Babington Macaulay is a memorable ballad that recounts the courage of Horatius Cocles in his battle with the Roman army against the Etruscans. Lars Porsena of Clusium, by the Nine Gods he swore. That the great house of Tarquin should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, and named a trysting day,
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.
