Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Right Honourable The Lord Macaulay PC FRS FRSE
Photogravure of Macaulay by Antoine Claudet
Secretary at War
In office 27 September 1839 – 30 August 1841
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Viscount Melbourne
Preceded by	Viscount Howick
Succeeded by	Sir Henry Hardinge
Paymaster General
In office 7 July 1846 – 8 May 1848
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	Lord John Russell
Preceded by	Hon. Bingham Baring
Succeeded by	The Earl Granville
Personal details
Born	(1800-10-25)25 October 1800 Leicestershire, England
Died	28 December 1859(1859-12-28) (aged 59) London, England
Political party	Whig
Parent(s)	Zachary Macaulay Selina Mills
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Historian, poet
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE (/ˈbæbɪŋtən məˈkɔːli/; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. He also played a substantial role in determining India's education policy.

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 commended for its prose style.^[1]