Thomas Babington Macaulay (Nigeria)
Thomas Babington Macaulay was a priest and educator, first Principal and founder of CMS Grammar School, Lagos, and father of Nigerian nationalist Herbert Macaulay.Life
T.B. Macaulay was born in Kissy, Sierra Leone on January 17, 1826 to Yoruba parents who were liberated by the British West Africa Squadron from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. 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. 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 he married in 1854.Death
T.B. Maculay died on his birthday from smallpox in Lagos and was buried at Ajele Cemetery.
The coeducational boarding school in Ikorodu, Lagos, Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, is named for him.
