“Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”
About Thomas Babington Macaulay
25 October 1800–28 December 1859
Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on 25 October 1800 at Rothley Temple in Leicestershire and died on 28 December 1859 at Kensington, London. He was at once a poet, essayist, parliamentarian, colonial administrator, historian, reviewer, and one of the most commanding prose stylists in nineteenth-century English. To…