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Thomas Babington Macaulay

1800 - 1859

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was an English 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 is best known for his The History of England, a seminal example of Whig history which expressed Macaulay's belief in the inevitability of sociopolitical progress and has been widely commended for its prose style. Macaulay also played a substantial role in determining India's education policy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Babington Macaulay is the 16th most popular historian (up from 124th in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,305th in 2019) and the most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 16 out of 561. Before him are Alexis de Tocqueville, Polybius, Suetonius, Thomas Kuhn, Hecataeus of Miletus, and Procopius. After him are Mircea Eliade, Cassius Dio, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Manetho, William of Tyre, and Leopold von Ranke.

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Among people born in 1800, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 2. Before him is Friedrich Wöhler. After him are Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, John Edward Gray, Millard Fillmore, Emperor Ninkō, France Prešeren, Charles Goodyear, Henry Fox Talbot, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, John Brown, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1859, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 6. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Klemens von Metternich, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Oscar I of Sweden. After him are Wilhelm Grimm, Carl Ritter, Thomas De Quincey, John Vianney, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, and Josip Jelačić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 258 out of 8,785. Before him are Archer Martin (1910), Roger Moore (1927), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), James Hunt (1947), John Snow (1813), and Cary Grant (1904). After him are Ozzy Osbourne (1948), Randal Cremer (1828), George Boole (1815), Leslie Howard (1893), John Boyd Orr (1880), and Phil Collins (1951).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 1. After him are Arnold J. Toynbee (1889), Bede (672), Edward Gibbon (1737), Bernard Lewis (1916), Kenneth Clark (1903), Frances Yates (1899), Arnold Toynbee (1852), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Peter Burke (1937), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), and Norman Davies (1939).

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