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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), Historian, poet and statesman

Sitter in 26 portraits
Historian; became a mainstay of the Edinburgh Review; MP from 1830; member of the Supreme Council of India, 1834-8 and Secretary at War, 1839-41; published his famous History of England, 1848; one of the great intellectual figures of the age.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

by (Pietro) Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti, Baron Marochetti
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

by Maull & Polyblank
albumen print, arched top, published June 1856 (April 1856)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

by Elliott & Fry
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

by and published by Samuel William Reynolds, after Samuel William Reynolds Jr
mezzotint, published 24 July 1833
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Apollo and the Tuneful Nine

by John Doyle, printed by Alfred Ducôte, published by Thomas McLean
lithograph, published 1 May 1840
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

after Sir Francis Grant
photogravure, (1858)
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Related People
Zachary Macaulay (father)
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Bt (nephew)
Lady Hannah More Trevelyan (née Macaulay) (sister)
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Literature, Journalism and Publishing
Politics, Government and Diplomacy
Scholarship and Research
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Anti-Slavery Society
Historians
Holland House set
Poets
The Raj and the Indian sub-continent
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India
Leicestershire
London