Thomas Babington Macaulay
British politician
Died when: 59 years 64 days (710 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE (/'bæb??t?n m?'k??li/; 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.
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