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Notable for her radical politics and her influence on American revolutionary ideology, Catharine Macaulay (–91) drew diligently on untapped seventeenth-..
Macaulay's History established him as Britain's unofficial historian laureate, and inspired "generations of public schoolboys, historians.
Macaulay, Catharine (1731–1791)
Controversial British historian, political radical, and champion of women's education who was an ardent supporter of America in 18th-century England . Name variations: Catherine or Catharine Macaulay-Graham; Catherine Graham Macaulay; Catherine Saw-bridge Macaulay.
Born Catharine Sawbridge on April 2, 1731, at Olantigh (pronounced: Ollantee), the family estate near Wye, Kent, England; died in Binfield, Berkshire, on June 22, 1791, of a long, unidentified illness; daughter of John Sawbridge (a wealthy country gentleman) and Elizabeth Wanley Sawbridge (an heiress); largely self-educated; married Dr.
George Macaulay, in June 1760 (died 1766); married William
Graham, in 1778; children: (first marriage) one daughter, Catharine Sophia Macaulay, born sometime between 1760 and 1766.
Moved to London following marriage (1760); published first volume of History of England (1763); seven additional volumes followed intermittently until 1783; moved to