Rt Hon. Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay PC
(1800-1859)
historian, man of letters, Member of Parliament (1830-1832), Member of Parliament (1832-1834), Member of Parliament (1839-1847), Privy Counsellor (from 1839), Member of Parliament (1852-1856), and 1st Baron Macaulay (from 1857)
Died aged c. 59
Wikidata WikipediaThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE (/ˈbæbɪŋtən məˈkɔːli/; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848. Macaulay's The History of England, which expressed his contention of the superiority of the Western European culture and of the inevitability of its sociopolitical progress, is a seminal example of Whig history that remains commended for its prose style.
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Zachary Macaulay 1768-1838 philanthropist and his son Thomas Babington Macaulay afterwards Lord Macaulay 1800-1859 historian and man of letters lived here
5 The Pavement, Clapham Common, SW4 0HY, London, United Kingdom where they lived