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Thomas Babington Macaulay

1800 - 1859

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. Macaulay's The History of England, which expressed his contention of the superiority of the Western European culture and of the inevitability of its sociopolitical progress, is a seminal example of Whig history that remains commended for its prose style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Babington Macaulay has received more than 1,404,703 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Thomas Babington Macaulay is the 124th most popular historian (down from 123rd in 2019), the 1,305th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,446th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Historian.

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  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Thomas Babington Macaulay has had the most page views in the with 186,993 views, followed by Hindi (18,753), and Russian (9,982). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Azerbaijani (254.33%), Cornish (245.33%), and Egyptian Arabic (118.35%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 124 out of 561. Before him are Hayden White, Ibn Hibban, Arnold Hauser, Michael Rostovtzeff, Agatharchides, and Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. After him are C. Northcote Parkinson, Heinrich von Treitschke, Afet İnan, Aban ibn Uthman, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, and Peter Burke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 26. Before him are Juan José Flores, Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, Princess Elisabeth of Savoy, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Jean-Jacques Ampère, and Roberto de Visiani. After him are Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Henri Milne-Edwards, Achille Devéria, George Bentham, and Ányos Jedlik. Among people deceased in 1859, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 22. Before him are Thomas De Quincey, John Brown, Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, and John Austin. After him are Alfred Vail, Carl Adolph Agardh, Yoshida Shōin, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Louis Poinsot, and Robert Stephenson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 1,305 out of 8,785. Before him are Joseph Boxhall (1884), Saint Malachy (1094), William Booth (1829), Alexander Cunningham (1814), Frederic Bartlett (1886), and Joan of Kent (1328). After him are Gareth Bale (1989), Anthony Minghella (1954), Ginger Baker (1939), David Hartley (1705), Lucinda Riley (1965), and Jack Charlton (1935).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 6. Before him are Arnold J. Toynbee (1889), Bede (672), Edward Gibbon (1737), Bernard Lewis (1916), and Henry Thomas Buckle (1821). After him are C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Peter Burke (1937), Ian Kershaw (1943), Norman Davies (1939), Arnold Toynbee (1852), and E. P. Thompson (1924).

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