Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

1800 - 1859

Titles on this disk:

• author: Critical and Historical Essays, Vol. 1
• author: Critical and Historical Essays, Vol. 2
• author: Critical and Historical Essays, Vol. 3
• author: Fiat Money Inflation in France
• author: Miscellaneous Writings, vol. 1
• author: Miscellaneous Writings, Vol.2

Quotations:

• (2 November, 2009) Macaulay argues that politicians are less interested in the economic value of public works to the citizens than they are in their own reputation, embezzlement and “jobs for the boys” (1830)
• (13 March, 2007) Lord Macaulay writes a devastating review of Southey’s Colloquies in which the Poet Laureate’s ignorance of the real condition of the working class in England is exposed (1830)

About this person:

Lord Macaulay, born Thomas Babington, was an English historian, peer, politician, and poet. He was an active opponent of slavery, a supporter of education and equality in India, and instrumental to parliamentary reform to increase representation of cities that had become unrepresented relative to rural areas during the rapid industrial growth. He authored a five-volume work on the History of England, and wrote numerous clear-minded, critical essays.