Thomas Babington Macaulay (Nigeria) Explained

Thomas Babington Macaulay
Birth Date:17 January 1826
Birth Place:Kissy, Sierra Leone
Death Place:Lagos, Lagos Colony
Resting Place:Ajele Cemetery
Children:Herbert Macaulay
Father:Ojo-Oriare
Mother:Kilangbe
Relatives:Oliver Ogedengbe Macaulay (grandson)
Samuel Ajayi Crowther (father-in-law)
Known For:founder of first secondary school in Nigeria

Thomas Babington Macaulay (17 January 1826[1]  - 17 January 1878[2]) was a Nigerian priest and educator. He was the first principal and founder of CMS Grammar School, Lagos, and father of Nigerian nationalist Herbert Macaulay.[3]

Life

Thomas Babington Macaulay was born in Kissy, Sierra Leone, on 17 January 1826 to Yoruba parents who were liberated by the British West Africa Squadron from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. His father was Ojo-Oriare from Ikirun in old Oyo Province (now Osun State), while his mother was Kilangbe from Ile-Ogbo, also in Oyo Province. Macaulay trained at CMS Training Institute, Islington, and King's College, London.[4] [5] He was a junior associate of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, whose second daughter, Abigail, he married in 1854.

Death

Macaulay died on his birthday (17 January 1878) from smallpox in Lagos and was buried at Ajele Cemetery.

Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, a co-educational boarding school in Ikorodu, Lagos, is named after him.[6]

References

7. Thomas Babington Macaulay was also named after a school in Ikorodu, Lagos

Notes and References

  1. Book: Elebute. Adeyemo. The Life of James Pinson Labulo Davies: A Colossus of Victorian Lagos. 2013. Kachifo Limited/Prestige. 9789785205763. 1.
  2. Web site: Macaulay, Thomas Babington 1826 to 1878 Anglican Nigeria. Dictionary of African Christian Biography. 23 January 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085450/http://www.dacb.org/stories/sierraleone/macaulay_2thomas.html. 19 August 2014.
  3. Book: Journey of the First Black Bishop: Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther 1806 - 1891. Jacob Oluwatayo Adeuyan. AuthorHouse. 2011. 978-1-463-4073-22.
  4. Book: A golden heritage: essays in celebration of Saint Andrew's College, Ọyọ. E. O. Olúkọ̀jú. Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria) Plc. 2001. 9789781294273. 50.
  5. Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa. Georgia State University. Dept. of African-American Studies. African Drum Publications. 1970.
  6. Web site: About – Diocese Of Lagos. 8 February 2021. en-US.