Lord macaulay biography

Family and Education

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Offices Held

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Biography

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

British historian and politician (–)

For another person with the name, see Thomas Babington Macaulay (Nigeria).

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE (; 25 October – 28 December ) was a British historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between and , and as the Paymaster General between and He also played a substantial role in determining India's education policy.

Macaulay's The History of England, which expressed his belief in the superiority of the Western European culture and of the inevitability of its sociopolitical progress, is a seminal example of Whig history commended for its prose style.^[1]

Early life

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Macaulay was born at Rothley Temple^[2] in Leicestershire on 25 October , the son of Zachary Macaulay, a Scottish Highlander, who became a colonial governor and abolitionist, and Selina Mills of Bristol, a former pupil of Hannah More.^[3] They named their first child after his uncle Thomas Babington, a Leicestershire landowner

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington () first Baron of Rothley, British parliament member, Fellow of Trinity College (Cambridge), regular contributor to the Edinburgh Review, jurist, Commissioner and Secretary of the board of control (), and British Cabinet member (). Macaulay was made the baron of Rothley in His celebrity in British politics and literature is affirmed by his final rest at Westminister Abbey. In contemporary Europe Lord Macaulay was well known as an outstanding intellectual of the liberal school and an eminent historian. Most notable among his historical works are History of England (), Laws of Ancient Rome (), and History, 4 vols (). His collected works run into many volumes.

In South Asian history, Lord Macaulay is particularly known for the crucial roles he had played in shaping the educational policy for India and in framing the Indian Criminal Code. He served as a Law Member of the Governor General's Council from to From the s, there was an ongoing debate concerning educational policy among the policy makers of the company government. They were arguing among themselves as to whether in British India the traditional system of education should be supported by the government or any alternative method on western lines introduced.

The participants in the debate