Colin Macaulay
Colin Macaulay (1760 – 20 February 1836),[1] general, slavery abolitionist and campaigner. Macaulay was a son of the Rev. John Macaulay (1720–1789), minister in the Church of Scotland, grandson of Dòmhnall Cam.[2] and his mother was Margaret Campbell. He had two brothers: Rev. Aulay Macaulay, scholar and antiquary, and Zachary Macaulay, colonial governor.
Macaulay served for thirty years in India, in the Company's army. He was present at Seringapatam, and was one of Sir David Bird's companions in the two years imprisonment in Trippoo Saib. He was for many years on intimate terms with the Duke of Wellington. In 1811 he returned from India and took a little part in public affairs. He sat in Parliament for one Session (from 1826 to 1830) as Member for Saltash[1] but did not takepart in any debate. He was an active supporter of the British Bible Society and was engaged in the Abolition of Slavery. He became a member of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. He accompanied the Duke of Wellington to the Congress of Verona in 1822, where proposals were submitted for the entire Abolition of the Slave Trade.[3]
In 1820 he visited island Zante in Greece and brought from there to England Codex Zacynthius, one of the most famous palimpsests.
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