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 ...

A false statement is being attributed to Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay claiming that he had asked to replace the Indian education system to be able to conquer the country in February 1835.

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 ...