Usually, it is Hallam, Lingard and Macaulay who have been recognized, in the English and Chinese academic circle, as the forerunners or founders of the Whig Historical School, but it is injustice.

• 通常，学界仅将哈兰、林加德和麦考莱视作英国辉格史学派的先驱或奠基人，这显得有些偏颇。