Identity area
Reference code
BABN/26
Title
Box 26: Zachary Macaulay
Date(s)
- 1791-1811 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
131 docs.
Context area
Name of creator
(1768-1838)
Biographical history
Son of John Macaulay and Margaret Campbell. His career was a varied one, managing an estate in Jamaica; being Governor of Sierra Leone, 1793-1709; editing the Christian Observer which was concerned with the slave trade, 1802-1816; and holding the post of secretary to the African Institute, 1807-1812. He helped form the Anti-Slavery Society in 1823. He married Selina Mills in 1799 and died in 1838.
Repository
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Letters of Zachary Macaulay, the majority to his brother in law Thomas Babington; one letter encloses a copy letter from Macaulay to Thomas Gisborne about his son John Gisborne's behaviour. One letter from Zachary Macaulay to his sister Jean Babington; another, incomplete, to an unknown recipient.