Macauley

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English Whig politician, essayist, poet and historian, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay of Rothley was born on October 25, 1800 in Leicestershire. Macaulay studied law and was called to the bar in 1826 but never practised seriously. He aspired to a political career, and in 1830 entered Parliament as a member of Calne in Wiltshire. He is best known for his History of England from the Accession of James II, 5 vols. (1849 – 61) which covers the period 1688- 1702, and secured his place as one of the founders of what has been called the Whig interpretation of history. He was raised to the peerage in 1857. He is also well known for Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), a series of very popular poems about heroic episodes in Roman history. His essays, originally published in the Edinburgh Review, were collected as Critical and Historical Essays (1843). He died on December 28, 1859 in London and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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