Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
1800–1859 (age 59)
Biography
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, born in 1800, combined literary gifts and political experience to produce essays, histories, and legislation that shaped Victorian Britain, including his influential "History of England" and the legal reforms he championed as a member of the House of Commons and later the House of Lords.
He balanced his intellectual labors with service on the Council of India, and Westminster Abbey now shelters his remains among other builders of the nation.