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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 was called to the bar in 1826. Although he studied law, he never practiced it seriously, choosing instead to focus on his writing and political career.1