MACAULAY, Thomas Babington

MACAULAY, Thomas Babington
(1800-1859)
   perhaps the greatest English literary historian of the nineteenth century who served the British East India Company in India where he urged educational REFORMS based on the English model. Although he grew up in an EVANGELICAL home, he had a strong aversion to CHRISTIANITY which found expression in his influential History of England (1848).

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  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington, First Baron — (1800–1859)    An English historian, political commentator, cabinet minister, and imperial administrator, Thomas Babington Macaulay was raised by evangelical Christians, but became a secular Whig, although, as a man of his time, he was never a… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay of Rothley — born Oct. 25, 1800, Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, Eng. died Dec. 28, 1859, Campden Hill, London English politician, historian, and poet. While a fellow at Cambridge University, Macaulay published the first of his essays, on John Milton (1825),… …   Universalium

  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington, barón Macaulay de Rothley — (25 oct. 1800, Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, Inglaterra–28 dic. 1859, Campden Hill, Londres). Político, historiador y poeta inglés. Mientras ejercía su cátedra en la Universidad de Cambridge, Macaulay publicó el primero de sus ensayos, sobre… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay — (1800 1859)    Born at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, son of the philanthropist Zachary Macaulay, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the English prize for a poem in 1819 ( Pompeii ) and in 1821 ( Evening ). Called to the …   British and Irish poets

  • MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, LORD —    essayist and historian, born at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, son of Zachary Macaulay the philanthropist, and so of Scottish descent; graduated at Cambridge 1822, proving a brilliant debater in the Union, and became Fellow of Trinity 1824;… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Thomas Babington Macaulay — Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1. Baron Macaulay of Rothley, (* 25. Oktober 1800 in Rothley Temple, Leicestershire; † 28. Dezember 1859 in Kensington) war ein englischer Historiker, Dichter und Politiker. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben 2 Literatur 3 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay — Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (25 October 1800 ndash; 28 December 1859) was a nineteenth century British poet, historian and Whig politician and one of the two Members of Parliament for Edinburgh. He wrote extensively as an… …   Wikipedia

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