Thomas Bassett Macaulay

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T. B. Macaulay

Thomas Bassett Macaulay, also known as T. B. Macaulay, (6 June 1860 – 1942) is a noted

Holstein cattle
descend from Macaulay's herd.

Background

Thomas Bassett Macaulay was born in

Sun Life Assurance Company.[1] He joined as a secretary in 1874; by 1889, he had worked his way up to president.[3]

Life

Thomas Bassett Macaulay graduated

chairman.[1]

Macaulay was a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain.[4] He was one of four Canadian charter members of the Actuarial Society of America.[3] In 1899, he became the first Canadian to be president of the society; as well as its youngest president, at age 39. When he died in 1942, Macaulay was also the longest surviving charter member.[5] Macaulay represented the actuaries of both Canada and the United States at the International Congresses, held in Paris and Berlin, in the years 1900 and 1906. He was also a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, president of the Canadian Life Assurance Officers' Association, and president of the Canadian West Indian League and became an honorary president of the Navy League of Canada. In 1915 he became president of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada.

Commemorative corner stone of the Sun Life building.

In 1914 he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Statistical Association.[6] In 1917, he was the chairman of the National Committee on Food Resources, he also was the governor of the Montreal General Hospital, as well as the Fraser-Hickson Institute public library in Montreal.[3]

Macaulay created a fund of £10,000 to assist the seafaring people of his father's hometown,

Macaulay Institute for Soil Research. Macaulay received an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen,[3] and McGill University,[7] and the town of Stornoway made him the first freeman of the burgh in 300 years.[3]

Holstein herd

Holstein cattle
descend from Macaulay's herd.

It has been stated that most of the world's pure-bred

Holstein cattle descend from Macaulays herd, raised on his farm in Quebec.[3][8] Macaulay and farm manager, Joe Chandler, bought a bull named "Johanna Rag Apple Pabst" (also known as "Old Joe"), for $15,000. The bull sired 51 bulls and 44 cows; after Macaulay's death in 1942, the herd was dispersed and went on to produce most of the pure-breds in the world.[7][8][9] For his work as a breeder and farmer and his devotion to the advancement of agriculture in the province of Quebec, Thomas Bassett Macaulay was posthumously inducted to the Agricultural Hall of Fame of Quebec in 1992[10]

Family

In 1881, Macaulay married Henrietta M. L. Bragg, from

bond durations.[12] Macaulay had two later marriages. In 1912, he married Margaret Allan of London, England; in 1920, he married Margaret Palin of Gloucester
, England. He did not have any children in his later two marriages.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Start of T. B. Macaulay (1860–1942)". virtualmuseum.ca. Retrieved 11 February 2010. [dead link]
  2. ISBN 978-1-84158-368-6
    .
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Dr Thomas Bassett Macaulay" (PDF). macaulay.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  4. ^ Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States. Index Pub. 1914. p. 511.
  5. ^ "Dreams of Our Founding Fathers" (PDF). Society of Actuaries. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  6. ^ List of ASA Fellows Archived 16 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 16 July 2016.
  7. ^ a b "Start of T. B. Macaulay (1860–1942)". virtualmuseum.ca. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  8. ^ a b "T.B. Macaulay and Mount Victoria Farm". museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
  9. ^ Zandbergen, Nelson (October 2003). "Holstein pioneers make pilgrimage to area". agrinewsinteractive.com. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
  10. ^ "Thomas Bassett Macaulay". templeagriculture.org/ (in French). Agricultural Hall of Fame of Quebec. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  11. ^ "T.B. Macaulay and Mount Victoria Farm", virtualmuseum.ca, retrieved 16 August 2011
  12. ^ Poitras, Geoffrey. "Frederick R. Macaulay, Frank M. Redington and the Emergence of Modern Fixed Income Analysis" (PDF) – via Simon Fraser University.

Further reading

  • Hodgson, Roderick L. (1997). T.B. Macaulay & Mount Victoria Farm. Hudson Historical Society.
    ISBN 978-1-895821-15-4
    .
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