Series 711 - Diaries of Zachary Macaulay in the West Indies and Sierra Leone

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS a/711

Title

Diaries of Zachary Macaulay in the West Indies and Sierra Leone

Date(s)

  • May 1795-Oct. 1798 (Creation)

Level of description

Series

Extent and medium

5 vols.

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 ofread more

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of Lady Errington (Katharine Reine Errington, née Macaulay), Dec. 2008.

Allied materials area

Related units of description

Papers of Zachary Macaulay, including other journals kept by him while governor of Sierra Leone, at the Huntingdon Library, California, reference no. mssMY