![]() ![]() ![]() In the latter role, he first made his mark with his essay “Milton,” which appeared in the Edinburgh Review of October 1825 ( 1963, vol. While at the university, he triumphed as an orator in the Union Debating Society and began his brilliant career as an essayist. He became a fellow of the college in 1824. He absorbed and retained the moral and ethical imperatives inculcated upon him but much to the chagrin of his father, he never underwent a conversion experience and always remained wary of the emotional excesses, cant, and hypocrisy to which an experiential religion so easily lends itself.Īt Trinity College, Cambridge, he distinguished himself as a classicist and a poet. Thus, the young Macaulay, an astonishingly precocious boy, grew up in an atmosphere of piety, introspection, and humanitarian endeavor. Macaulay's mother was the daughter of a Quaker bookseller and herself a devout evangelical. His father, Zachary, one of the leading members of the “Clapham sect,” was a stern evangelical who fought unremittingly for the abolition first of the slave trade and then of slavery itself. ![]() Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859), English historian, essayist, and politician, was born at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire. ![]()
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