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" Macaulay convinced the Governor-General to adopt English as the medium of instruction in higher education, from the sixth year of schooling onwards, rather than Sanskrit or Persian then used in the institutions supported by the East India Company.
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Macaulay and English
* 1876 – George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian ( d. 1962 )
It was around this time that the great Whig historian Thomas Babington Macaulay began to promulgate what would later be coined the Whig view of history, in which all of English history was seen as leading up to the culminating moment of the passage of Lord Grey's reform bill.
In this context, writings of Lord Macaulay ," the brain behind the system of English education ", are referred to as an indication of this.
Lord Macaulay had stated, " We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and millions whom we govern — a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.
By doing so, Macaulay wanted to " educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother tongue " and thus, by incorporating English, he sought to " enrich " the Indian languages so " that they could become vehicles for European scientific, historical, and literary expression ".
The Liberal historian Lord Acton read Macaulay's History of England four times and later described himself as " a raw English schoolboy, primed to the brim with Whig politics " but " not Whiggism only, but Macaulay in particular that I was so full of ".
It has been thought by Macaulay and others that Ferguson led the English government to believe that he was a spy in their interests, and that his frequent escapes from justice were due to official connivance.
" According to Macaulay, Impey later applied English law so aggressively as to " throw a great country into the most dreadful confusion ", until in effect bribed by Hastings to desist.
He was one of the earliest English parliamentary orators ; his speeches greatly impressed his contemporaries, and in a later generation, as Thomas Macaulay observes, they were " a favourite theme of old men who lived to see the conflicts of Robert Walpole and William Pulteney.
Hume still dominated English historiography but this changed when Thomas Babington Macaulay, utilising Fox and Mackintosh's work and manuscript collections, published the first volumes of his The History of England from the Accession of James II in 1848.
* George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian
During his service in India, he was a strong opponent of Macaulay and a proponent of education in the local languages and was opposed to the use of English as a medium of instruction as well as the orientalist view that supported Arabic, Persian or Sanksrit.
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE ( 1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958 ) was an English writer.
Catharine Macaulay ( born Catharine Sawbridge and, by the time of her death, Catharine Graham ) ( 2 April 1731 – 22 June 1791 ) was an English historian.
As Thomas Babington Macaulay noted in his famous Minute: “ the natives ” had become “ desirous to be taught English ” and were no longer “ desirous to be taught Sanscrit or Arabic ”.
Translated into English by G. C. Macaulay.
Macaulay and medium
Macartney saved his severest hitting for George Macaulay, a medium pace swing bowler and off spinner whom he regarded as England's most potent bowler.
Macaulay and education
The current system of education, with its western style and content, was introduced and founded by the British during the British Raj, following recommendations by Lord Macaulay.
Macaulay and from
In September 2006, The City University of New York received a $ 30, 000, 000 gift from philanthropist and City College alumnus, William E. Macaulay, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Reserve Corporation.
At the 82nd Academy Awards Sheedy, Hall, Ringwald and Nelson all appeared in a tribute to John Hughes, along with other actors who had worked with Hughes, including Jon Cryer from Pretty in Pink, Matthew Broderick from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone.
The story is retold in Horatius from the Lays of Ancient Rome by Lord Macaulay, a poem of great popularity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
* David Macaulay, author and illustrator graduated from Cumberland High School
" Macaulay adopted his unfavourable reading of Marlborough straight from Swift and the Tory pamphleteers of the latter part of Anne's reign.
Thomas was educated at Macaulay Church of England Primary School, Victoria Rise, Clapham until 1974, where his party trick was to recite the first verses of the four gospels from memory, and then the independent Christ's Hospital School, where he attained O-levels and A-levels.
Macaulay was Secretary to the Board of Control under Lord Grey from 1832 until 1833.
* The Univac M-460 Computer – Paper by J. E. Thornton, M. Macaulay, and D. H. Toth, Remington Rand Univac Division of Sperry Rand ( on-line version from Ed Thelen's Antique Computer Home Page )
* Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.
According to the historian Thomas Macaulay, Simeon's " authority and influence … extended from Cambridge to the most remote corners of England, … his real sway in the Church was far greater than that of any primate.
* Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.
* Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.
* Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.
* Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.
In a letter to Catherine Macaulay she wrote: " America stands armed with resolution and virtue ; but she still recoils at the idea of drawing the sword against the nation from whence she derived her origin.
* George Macaulay Trevelyan, " Garibaldi's defense of Rome " excerpts from Garibaldi and the Thousand, 1910
*“ Virginia ,” from Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay at Wikisource ( a fictional portrayal )
Founded in 1966, the college takes its name from social historian George Macaulay Trevelyan, Chancellor of the University from 1950 to 1957.
The College motto " Vera Fictis Libentius " was taken from the inscription of the 1875 statue of Lord Macaulay in the antechamber of the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Macaulay and year
Later that year acting-Governor Macaulay sent out an expedition which went up the Jong river and burned Commenda, a town belonging to a related chief.
Macaulay points to the allusions in the play to gentlemen's periwigs, to guineas, to the vests which Charles ordered to be worn at court, to the Great Fire of London, etc., as showing that the comedy could not have been written the year before the author went to Oxford.
" That same year, he also made a cameo in the movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York hosting the game show " Ding-Dang-Dong ", where he mentioned that the show's contestants stayed at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, and also gave the phone number for reservations ( which allowed Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, to check in ).
In 1819 entered a poem for the Chancellor's Gold Medal ; this was awarded to Macaulay, but Clarke's poem Pompeii, published in the same year, was judged second.
Thomas Babington Macaulay spent a year in rented accommodation in Thames Ditton while writing some of his famous History of England.
A notable practitioner of false economy was King Frederick William I of Prussia, who was said by Thomas Macaulay to have saved five or six rixdollars a year feeding his family unwholesome cabbages even though the poor diet sickened his children and the resulting medical care cost him many times what he saved.
The next year Wilson set up in the church a statue of Catherine Macaulay, ( then still alive ) whose political ideas he admired.
It marked the return of Macaulay Culkin to acting after a six year hiatus and also starred Irene Jacob and Madeleine Potter.
However, Macaulay withdrew from the business after a year and it became a Sutcliffe family concern until it folded in the 1990s.
The first few minutes of the video featured an extended version of the song's intro, during which an 11 year old kid ( Macaulay Culkin ) is dancing to rock music in his bedroom at night.
Each year the experts from Macaulay Library hold the week-long Sound Recording Workshop in the Tahoe National Forest.
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