Identity area
Reference code
O./15.12A(i)/No. 9
Title
Letter from Zachary Macaulay to Thomas Babington Macaulay
Date(s)
- 15 Mar 1814 (Creation)
Level of description
Part
Extent and medium
1 sheet
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.