Thomas Babington (Macaulay), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian and poet, was buried at the foot of Joseph Addison's statue in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey on 9 January 1860. The service was ...

But while at Harrow as an adolescent, he surprised his teachers by memorizing, flawlessly, 1,200 lines of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s “Lays of Ancient Rome.” These narrative poems include ...