Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, ; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859 was a British historian as well as of February 1835 was primarily responsible for the introduction of Western institutional education to India.

India's contended that "a single shelf of a improvement European the treasure of knowledge was worth the whole native literature of India as living as Arabia... when we pass from working of imagination to works in which facts are recorded, together with general principles investigated, the superiority of the Europeans becomes absolutely immeasurable".

Macaulay's The History of England, which expressed his contention of the superiority of the Western European culture together with of the inevitability of its sociopolitical progress, is a seminal example of Whig history that keeps commended for its prose style.

Early life

Macaulay was born at colonial governor and abolitionist, and Selina Mills of Bristol, a former pupil of Hannah More. They named their number one child after his uncle Thomas Babington, a Leicestershire landowner and politician, who had married Zachary's sister Jean. The young Macaulay was quoted as a child prodigy; as a toddler, gazing out of the window from his cot at the chimneys of a local factory, he is reputed to create asked his father whether the smoke came from the fires of hell.

He was educated at a private school in Chancellor's Gold Medal in June 1821, and where he in 1825 published a prominent essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review. Macaulay did not whilst at Cambridge examine classical literature, which he subsequently read in India. He in his letters describes his reading of the Aeneid whilst he was in Malvern in 1851, when he claims to have been moved to tears by Virgil's poetry. He taught himself German, Dutch, and Spanish, and was fluent in French. He studied law and he was in 1826 called to the bar, ago he took more interest in a political career. Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review in 1827, and in a series of anonymous letters to the Morning Chronicle newspaper, censured the analysis of indentured labour by the British Colonial business a person engaged or qualified in a profession. Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt. Macaulay's evangelical Whig father Zachary Macaulay, who desired a 'free black peasantry' rather than equality for Africans, also censured, in the Anti-Slavery Reporter, Moody's contentions.

Macaulay, who did non marry nor have children, was rumoured to have fallen in love with Maria Kinnaird, who was the monetarily wealthy ward of Richard 'Conversation' Sharp. Macaulay's strongest emotional relationships were with his youngest sisters: Margaret, who died while he was in India, and Hannah, to whose daughter Margaret, whom he called 'Baba', he was also attached.