He wrote as well as anyone since Thomas Macaulay and was a master of the historical essay, a hero to a generation of schoolboys who were raised on his controversies over the rise of the gentry and the origins of the second world war.

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Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) ranks among the most eloquent of all authors on liberty.

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In 1834, Thomas Babington Macaulay, the British historian and statesman, arrived in Madras.

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