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Biography of Thomas Babington MacaulayName: Thomas Babington MacaulayBirth Date: October 25, 1800 Death Date: December 28, 1859 Place of Birth: Leicestershire, England Nationality: English Gender: Male Occupations: politician, essayist, historian Thomas Babington Macaulay The English essayist, historian, and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron of Rothley (1800-1859), was the most popular and dazzling English historian of the 19th century. He was an eloquent spokesman for the liberal English middle classes.The views of the Tory ascendancy, which had dominated England in the later 18th and early 19th centuries, also gave color to David Hume's History of England, the leading text on the subject after its publication between 1754 and 1761. The growing power of the Whigs, as the party of the middle-class industrialists and businessmen, created the need for a reinterpretation of English history that emphasized the role of the civil war of the 17th century, the Glorious Revolution, and the Hanoverian Settlement as the cornerstones of English freedom, prosperity, and social progress. More than any other writer, Macaulay promulgated this "Whig view of history" and trusted to the maintenance of this tradition for continued national …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…work are Arthur Bryant, Macaulay (1933), and Richmond C. Beatty, Lord Macaulay, Victorian Liberal (1938). Recommended for general historical and intellectual background are George Peabody Gooch, History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century (1913; rev. with a new intro., 1961); George Macaulay Trevelyan, British History in the Nineteenth Century, and After, 1782-1919 (1938); David Churchill Somervell, English Thought in the Nineteenth Century (1929); and Walter Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 (1957).Bryant, Arthur, Sir, Macaulay, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1979, 1932.Clive, John Leonard, Macaulay, the shaping of the historian, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1987, 1973. Edwards, Owen Dudley, Macaulay, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.Hamburger, Joseph, Macaulay and the Whig tradition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Roberts, S. C. (Sydney Castle), Lord Macaulay, the pre-eminent Victorian, Philadelphia: R. West, 1977. Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir, The life and letters of Lord Macaulay, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Young, Kenneth, Macaulay, Harlow Eng.: Published for the British Council by Longman Group, 1976. |