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Which office did Thomas Babington Macaulay receive under Prime Minister Lord John Russell?
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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.
When Lord John Russell became prime minister in 1846, Thomas Babington Macaulay was appointed to the office of paymaster general.1