Thomas Babbington Macaulay
Who is Thomas Babbington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848.
Macaulay's The History of England, which expressed his contention of the superiority of the Western European culture and of the inevitability of its sociopolitical progress, is a seminal example of Whig history that remains commended for its prose style.
Early life
Macaulay was born at Rothley Temple in Leicestershire on 25 October 1800, 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. They named their firs...
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Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems
- The Battle Of Moncontour
Oh, weep for Moncontour! Oh! weep for the hour,
When the children of darkness and evil had power,
When the horsemen of Valois triumphantly trod
On the bosoms that bled for their rights and their God.
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- A Radical War Song
Awake, arise, the hour is come,
For rows and revolutions;
There's no receipt like pike and drum
For crazy constitutions.
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- Epitaph On Henry Martyn
Here Martyn lies. In Manhood's early bloom
The Christian Hero finds a Pagan tomb.
Religion, sorrowing o'er her favourite son,
Points to the glorious trophies that he won.
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- Pompeii
A Poem Which Obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July 1819.
Oh! land to Memory and to Freedom dear,
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- An Election Ballad
As I sate down to breakfast in state,
At my living of Tithing-cum-Boring,
With Betty beside me to wait,
Came a rap that almost beat the door in.
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- Timberati: "the more i read about [socrates], the less i wonder that they poisoned him" - thomas babbington macaulay
- Dlnarayan2: a civilization which gave planned cities like harappa and mohenjodaro is incapable of making gardens? how colonized can minds get? this colonel will make thomas babbington macaulay’s heart swell with pride.
- Amandajcarrod: "turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, reform, that you may preserve!"
thomas babbington macaulay, 2nd march 1831
taken from hansard's debates of the house of commons, vol 2.
- Svmke1: “a war of bengalees against english men was like a war of sheep against wolves, of men against demons.”
— thomas babbington macaulay
- Arafatkamaal: in the modern context this began right after the mughals fell after indian rebellion of 1857, this and after significant portions of indian muslims didn't get onboarded to thomas babbington macaulay's reforms.
over time led to creation of amu by sir syed ahmed khan.
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