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Thomas Macaulay
| English essayist, historian and statesman. Date of Birth: 25.10.1800 Country: Great Britain |
Content:
- Early Life and Education
- Literary Success and Legal Career
- Political Career
- Service in India
- Return to England and Literary Legacy
- Death and Legacy
Early Life and Education
Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on October 25, 1800, in Rothley Temple, Leicestershire.
His father, Zachary Macaulay, was a businessman, an opponent of slavery, and an editor of the "Christian Observer." Macaulay was educated at two small private schools before enrolling at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won literary prizes for his poems "Pompeii" and "Evening" in 1819 and 1821.
Literary Success and Legal Career
Macaulay later became a fellow of Trinity College, receiving a salary of £300 per year.
He was called to the bar but never practiced law. Instead, he wrote for literary journals and supported the abolition of slavery. His 1825 essay on Milton in the "Ed