Thomas Babington Macaulay (17 January 1826 – 17 January 1878) was a Nigerian priest and educator, first principal and founder of

CMS Grammar School, Lagos The CMS Grammar School in Bariga, a suburb of Lagos in Lagos State, is the oldest secondary school in Nigeria, founded on 6 June 1859 by the Church Missionary Society. For decades it was the main source of African clergymen and administrators in t ...

, and father of Nigerian nationalist Herbert Macaulay.

Life

T. B. 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 The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and ...

. Macaulay's father was Ojo-Oriare from Ikirun in old Oyo Province while his mother was Kilangbe from Ile-Ogbo also in present Osun State (old Oyo Province). T.B. Macaulay trained at CMS Training Institute, Islington and King's College, London. T.B. Macaulay was a junior associate of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, whose second daughter (Abigail Crowther) he married in 1854.

Death

T. B. Maculay died on his birthday (17 January 1878) from smallpox in Lagos and was buried at

Ajele Cemetery Ajele Cemetery was a major cemetery on Lagos Island demolished by the Lagos State military government under Brigadier Mobolaji Johnson in the 1970s. Ajele in Yoruba means government administrative official and the cemetery was so named because ...

Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary is a private co-educational school in Agunfoye-Lugbusi Village, Ikorodu, Lagos Nigeria. It is jointly owned by three Anglican dioceses in the Lagos Province – Lagos, Lagos West and Lagos Mainland, Church of Ni ...

, a co-educational boarding school in Ikorodu, Lagos, is named after him.

References

1826 births 1878 deaths Nigerian Anglicans Sierra Leone Creole people Fourah Bay College alumni Yoruba Christian clergy 19th-century Nigerian people Deaths from smallpox Saro people Aku (ethnic group) History of Lagos Nigerian people of Sierra Leonean descent Sierra Leonean emigrants to Nigeria Yoruba educators Nigerian educators Abiodun family Burials in Lagos State Sierra Leonean people of Yoruba descent Founders of Nigerian schools and colleges People of colonial Nigeria Educators from Lagos 19th-century Nigerian educators Alumni of King's College London Alumni of the Church Missionary Society College, Islington Heads of schools in Nigeria 7. Thomas Babington Macaulay was also named after a school in Ikorodu, Lagos {{Nigeria-reli-bio-stub