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Authorised form of nameMacaulay; Thomas Babington (1800 - 1859); Baron Macaulay
Dates1800 - 1859
NationalityBritish
Place of birthRothley Temple, Leicestershire, England
Date of birth25 October 1800
Place of deathHolly Lodge, Campden Hill, Kensington, London
Date of death28 December 1859
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Poet's Corner (at the foot of Addison's statue), Westminster Abbey, London
OccupationPoet; historian; barrister
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Cambridge
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1824); called to the Bar (1826); Commissioner in Bankruptcy (1828); MP for Calne, Wiltshire (1830); MP for Leeds (1831); Member, Supreme Council of India (1834-1838); President of the Commission for composing a criminal code for India (1835); returned to England (1838); began writing a 'History of England' (1839); MP for Edinburgh (1839-1847); Secretary of War (1839-1841); died of heart failure
Honours:
Baron 1857
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election22/11/1849
RelationshipsEldest son of Zachary Macaulay (FRS 1821) and his wife Selina Mills, daughter of a Quaker bookseller of Bristol
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1860-1862 vol 11 pp xi-xxvi
Notes:
Elected a Fellow before becoming Baron.
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 1. 1731-1847' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 307-332
CodeNA7906
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