“It is odd that the last twenty-five years which have witnessed the greatest progress ever made in physical science should have produced hardly a volume that will be remembered in 1900.”
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…