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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
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Birth: | 25th October, 1800 |
Death: | 28th December, 1859 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Historian, Poet, Politician |
Macaulay was the eldest child of Zachary Macaulay, a Scottish Highlander, who became a colonial governor and abolitionist and Selena Mills who was a former pupil of Hannah More. Thomas Macaulay was born in Leicestershire, England, where he was noted as a child prodigy.
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