Third son of a Church of Scotland Minister, John Macaulay(1720-1789).At fourteen went to work in a Merchants Office in Glasgow.In 1784 took a position as a Bookkeeper on a Sugar Plantation in Jamaica,at first upset by the way slaves were treated,later promoted to under manager on the plantation.Married Selina in 1799 and they had nine children.During this time he became involved in the campaign against the slave trade.
Bought back 25 African youths mainly from Sierre Leonne to educate, but the experiment failed as all but 6 had died by the end of 1805 mainly from Measles.
He died at Clarges Street
A life size bust was erected in the north west tower Chapel in the Nave of Westminster Abbey.The inscription on the pedestal reads-
"In grateful remembrance of Zachary Macaulay, who, during a protracted life, with an intense but quiet perseverance which no success could relax, no reverse could subdue, no toil, privation, or reproach could daunt, devoted his time, talents, fortune, and all the energies of his mind and body to the service of the most injured and helpless of mankind: and who partook for more than forty successive years, in the counsels and in the labours which guided and blest by God first rescued the British Empire from the guilt of the slave trade; and finally conferred freedom on eight hundred thousand slaves; This tablet is erected by those who drew wisdom from his mind, and a lesson from his life, and who now humbly rejoice in the assurance, that through the Divine Redeemer, the foundation of all his hopes, he shares in the happiness of those who rest from their labours, and whose works do follow them. He was born at Inverary, N.B. [North Britain] on the 2 May 1768: and died in London on the 13 May 1838".
Just under the bust is a medallion with the kneeling figure of a slave inscribed "Am I not a man and a brother".
His eldest son Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800-1859(20900) and (21847)
Actual Burial here
Bought back 25 African youths mainly from Sierre Leonne to educate, but the experiment failed as all but 6 had died by the end of 1805 mainly from Measles.
He died at Clarges Street
A life size bust was erected in the north west tower Chapel in the Nave of Westminster Abbey.The inscription on the pedestal reads-
"In grateful remembrance of Zachary Macaulay, who, during a protracted life, with an intense but quiet perseverance which no success could relax, no reverse could subdue, no toil, privation, or reproach could daunt, devoted his time, talents, fortune, and all the energies of his mind and body to the service of the most injured and helpless of mankind: and who partook for more than forty successive years, in the counsels and in the labours which guided and blest by God first rescued the British Empire from the guilt of the slave trade; and finally conferred freedom on eight hundred thousand slaves; This tablet is erected by those who drew wisdom from his mind, and a lesson from his life, and who now humbly rejoice in the assurance, that through the Divine Redeemer, the foundation of all his hopes, he shares in the happiness of those who rest from their labours, and whose works do follow them. He was born at Inverary, N.B. [North Britain] on the 2 May 1768: and died in London on the 13 May 1838".
Just under the bust is a medallion with the kneeling figure of a slave inscribed "Am I not a man and a brother".
His eldest son Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800-1859(20900) and (21847)
Actual Burial here
Third son of a Church of Scotland Minister, John Macaulay(1720-1789).At fourteen went to work in a Merchants Office in Glasgow.In 1784 took a position as a Bookkeeper on a Sugar Plantation in Jamaica,at first upset by the way slaves were treated,later promoted to under manager on the plantation.Married Selina in 1799 and they had nine children.During this time he became involved in the campaign against the slave trade.
Bought back 25 African youths mainly from Sierre Leonne to educate, but the experiment failed as all but 6 had died by the end of 1805 mainly from Measles.
He died at Clarges Street
A life size bust was erected in the north west tower Chapel in the Nave of Westminster Abbey.The inscription on the pedestal reads-
"In grateful remembrance of Zachary Macaulay, who, during a protracted life, with an intense but quiet perseverance which no success could relax, no reverse could subdue, no toil, privation, or reproach could daunt, devoted his time, talents, fortune, and all the energies of his mind and body to the service of the most injured and helpless of mankind: and who partook for more than forty successive years, in the counsels and in the labours which guided and blest by God first rescued the British Empire from the guilt of the slave trade; and finally conferred freedom on eight hundred thousand slaves; This tablet is erected by those who drew wisdom from his mind, and a lesson from his life, and who now humbly rejoice in the assurance, that through the Divine Redeemer, the foundation of all his hopes, he shares in the happiness of those who rest from their labours, and whose works do follow them. He was born at Inverary, N.B. [North Britain] on the 2 May 1768: and died in London on the 13 May 1838".
Just under the bust is a medallion with the kneeling figure of a slave inscribed "Am I not a man and a brother".
His eldest son Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800-1859(20900) and (21847)
Actual Burial here
Bought back 25 African youths mainly from Sierre Leonne to educate, but the experiment failed as all but 6 had died by the end of 1805 mainly from Measles.
He died at Clarges Street
A life size bust was erected in the north west tower Chapel in the Nave of Westminster Abbey.The inscription on the pedestal reads-
"In grateful remembrance of Zachary Macaulay, who, during a protracted life, with an intense but quiet perseverance which no success could relax, no reverse could subdue, no toil, privation, or reproach could daunt, devoted his time, talents, fortune, and all the energies of his mind and body to the service of the most injured and helpless of mankind: and who partook for more than forty successive years, in the counsels and in the labours which guided and blest by God first rescued the British Empire from the guilt of the slave trade; and finally conferred freedom on eight hundred thousand slaves; This tablet is erected by those who drew wisdom from his mind, and a lesson from his life, and who now humbly rejoice in the assurance, that through the Divine Redeemer, the foundation of all his hopes, he shares in the happiness of those who rest from their labours, and whose works do follow them. He was born at Inverary, N.B. [North Britain] on the 2 May 1768: and died in London on the 13 May 1838".
Just under the bust is a medallion with the kneeling figure of a slave inscribed "Am I not a man and a brother".
His eldest son Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800-1859(20900) and (21847)
Actual Burial here
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