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a devourer of books from his earliest childhood. His health broke rapidly aet.
50.
B. Karl Gotthelf,
B. Johann Gottlieb, > were all distinguished as literary men.
N. Karl Friedrich,
Macaulay, Thomas Babington; created Lord Macaulay; historian, poet, essayist,
and conversationalist; a man of transcendent power of memory.
G. Rev. John Macaulay, Scotch minister at Inverary; most eloquent preacher;
mentioned in Dr. Johnson's Tour.
F. Zachary, slave abolitionist; very able; a lucid and rapid writer, but singularly
wanting in facility of oratorical expression.
U. Colin Macaulay, general. Was the right-hand man of the Duke of Wellington, in
his Indian campaigns. He governed for many years a large part of the Madras
Presidency, and, in spite of his active life, was a first-rate scholar both in
ancient and modern literature. He was constantly mentioned in contemporary
literature as a wonder for his erudition and abilities.
U. Aulay Macaulay, brilliant conversationalist; wrote much of value, that remains
unfinished and unprinted; tutor to Caroline of Brunswick; d. in prime of life.
[US.] (Son of Aulay.) John Heyrick, Head Master of Repton, a good scholar.
US. Kenneth Macaulay, M.P. for Cambridge, was the son of the above. There
were also other brothers who had ability.
n. George Trevelyan, M.P., Junior Lord of the Treasury (son of Sir Charles
Trevelyan, statesman), was second classic of his year (1861) at Cambridge;
author of “Cawnpore,” &c.
Mill, James; historian of British India.
S. John Stuart Mill, the eminent modern philosopher and political writer.
Niebuhr, Barthold George; historical critic (“Roman History”); afterwards a
financial statesman. All his time was devoted to study. He had a fair education.
Aet. 7 he was considered a prodigy of application; but his constitution was
weak arid nervous, and further injured by a marsh fever. Macaulay (Preface,
“Lays of Ancient Rome”) says, Niebuhr would have been the first writer of
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