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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay published his collection of Critical and Historical Essays in 1843. He compiled this work during a period of relative leisure after the fall of Lord Melbourne’s ministry in 1841.1