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  Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on October 25th, 1800, at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, as the son of former African Colonial Governor and anti-slavery philanthropist Zachary Macaulay.

  Macaulay was a notably precocious child and something of an actual literary prodigy, he began to write poetry and a world history before he was ten years of age. He was later educated at Trinity College, Cambridge where he became known as a debater, as a brilliant conversationalist, and as a classical scholar.
  In 1824 he gained a college prize for an essay on the character of William III. He was also awarded a fellowship at Trinity College. An anti-slavery address he gave in 1824 was reported upon by the favourably by the Edinburgh Review, one of the most notable literary magazines of the period.
  His essay on the English poet John Milton was published (August 1825) in the Edinburgh Review and met with considerable acclaim, Macaulay was thereafter one of the best-known and most popular contributors to that publication.

  Macaulay was called to the bar in 1826, and joined the northern circuit. He practiced little, preferring to follow literary pursuits and politics spending many hours watching the proceedings of the house of commons from the public g

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Macaulay, Thomas Babington

​MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTONLord Macaulay (1800–1859), historian, eldest child of Zachary Macaulay [q. v.], was born at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, the seat of Zachary Macaulay's brother-in-law, Thomas Babington, on 25 Oct. 1800, the day of St. Crispin, and of the battle of Agincourt. His first two years were spent in Birchin Lane, whence his parents moved to a house in the High Street of Clapham. From the age of three he read incessantly, and talked in ‘printed words.’ Hannah More made a pet of him when he was four, and about the same time his father took him to Strawberry Hill, where he saw the Orford collections, and ever afterwards carried the catalogue in his memory. He was, with all his precocity, a simple and merry child. He rambled on Clapham Common, and discovered the Alps and Mount Sinai in its ridges and hillocks. He was sent as a day-boy to a Mr. Greaves. When he was seven he began a compendium of universal history; at eight he wrote a treatise intended to convert the natives of Malabar to Christianity; and after learning Scott's ‘Lay’ and ‘Marmion’ by heart, he took to composing poems and hymns. A poem on Olaus Magnus of Norway, the supposed ancestor of the Macaulays, is an echo o

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The Works precision Lord Macaulay

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Location Published	London
Publisher	Longmans, Green, nearby Co.
Edition	First Footpath Thus
Date Published	1866
Binding	Leather bound
Condition	Near Fine
Author	Macaulay | Peer [Thomas Babington Macaulay]
Parenthetical	[Thomas