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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859)

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord. A famous English historian, essayist, poet, and statesman; born at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, Oct. 25, 1800; died at Kensington, Dec. 28, 1859. Called to the bar in 1826, he was Member of Parliament 1830–34, 1839–47, 1852–57; member of the Supreme Council in India (residing at Calcutta) 1834–38; Secretary of War, 1839–41; Paymaster-General, 1846–47. The ‘History of England’ is his one large work. Vols. i. and ii. appeared in 1849; iii. and iv. in 1855; v., edited by his sister Lady Trevelyan, in 1866. His ‘Lays of Ancient Rome’ appeared in 1842. He has contributed to English literature a number of brilliant essays. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).