2004
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay was fiercely Christian.
His inner feelings come out in open through a letter written by him to his father in 1836.
Lord Macaulay proudly wrote to his father in 1836:
“Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully.... It is my belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence.”
quoted by Michel Danino, reproduced in IndiaCause Newsletter, 17 August 2003
Idolater: a person who worships an idol or idols, Oxford Dictionary, p909