MANY PEOPLE DONT KNOW THAT HERBERT MACAULAY WAS A YORÚBÀ MAN.
His full name is Olayinka Herbert Samuel Heelas Badmus Macaulay, he was born in (14 November 1864 – 7 May 1946), and he was a Nigerian nationalist, politician, surveyor, engineer, architect, journalist, and musician and is considered by many Nigerians as the founder of Nigerian nationalism.
Herbert Macaulay was born in Broad Street in Lagos to the family of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Abigail Crowther. His parents were children of people captured from what is now Nigeria, resettled in Sierra Leone by the British West Africa Squadron, and eventual returnees to present day Nigeria.
Thomas Babington Macaulay was one of the sons of Ojo Oriare while Abigail Crowther was the daughter of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a descendant of King Abiodun of Oyo, Thomas Babington Macaulay was the founder of the first secondary school in Nigeria, the CMS Grammar School, Lagos.
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