Family and Education
b. 25 Oct. 1800, 1st s. of Zachary Macaulay (d. 1838), merchant and philanthropist, of 26 Birchin Lane, London and Selina, da. of Thomas Mills, bookseller and stationer, of Bristol, Glos. educ. William Greaves’s sch. Clapham, Surr. ?1806; Rev. Matthew Morris Preston’s sch. Little Shelford, Cambs. 1813 and Aspenden Hall, Herts. 1814; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1818, fellow 1824-52; L. Inn 1822, called 1826. unm. cr. Bar. Macaulay 10 Sept. 1857. d. 28 Dec. 1859.
Offices Held
Commr. of bankrupts 1828 – 32; commr. bd. of control June – Dec. 1832, sec. Dec. 1832 – Dec. 1833; member, supreme council of India 1833 – 38; PC 30 Sept. 1839; sec. at war Sept. 1839 – Sept. 1841; paymaster-gen. July 1846-Apr. 1848.
Rect. Glasgow Univ. 1848 – 50; bencher, L. Inn 1849; high steward, Camb. Univ. 1857 – d.
Main residence: 8 South Square, Gray’s Inn, Mdx.
Notes
Based on G. O. Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (1876), which was republished, slightly enlarged, in 1908; The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay ed. T. Pinney (1974-81); and J. Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Shaping of the Historian (1973), the best modern biography.
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Commons 1820-1832
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MACAULAY, Thomas Babington (1800-1859)
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