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BARON MACAULAY OF ROTHLEY

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1855
BARON MACAULAY OF ROTHLEY
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FRANK LESLIES ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER Fes 4 1860 LOD MACAULAY THoMAS BasBingTon Macauxay who for his eminence in literature and for his civil ser vices to the British Empire was created in 1856 Baron Macaulay of Rothley was born at Rothiey Temple Leicestershire on the 25th of October 1800 and after receiving such rudi ments of education as the nursery governess and a private tutor could impart was sent to Trinity College Cambridge where he obtaived the Craven Scholarship and some of the highest University honors. In his twenty secon year he received his Fellowship Belonging to a wealthy family his course wag rendered a3 smooth as gold could make it for although there is no royal road to know ledge there is certainly one by which the impeiliments to success may be avoided. In 1823 he went to Lincolns Inn to study law and was called to the Bar in 1826 It was about tais time that he made a speech at an anti slavery meeting of such glittering generalities about negro involuntary servitude that he was highly lauded in the Edinburgh Quartery Rese. Without wishing to undervalue the savrilive made by England to emancipate the negro slaves by the.

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