Kenneth Macaulay (colonialist)

Kenneth Macaulay (1792-1829) was a merchant and colonial official in British Sierra Leone during the early nineteenth century.

Macaulay served as Acting-Governor of Sierra Leone and was appointed as a member of His Majesty's Colonial Council.

Kenneth Macaulay served in several positions of influence in the Colony of Sierra Leone during the early nineteenth century.

He was a member of the jury during the trial of Samuel Samo, the first court case brought under the British Slave Trade Felony Act 1811.

Kenneth had a brief relationship with Mary Harding and had several children with Abboo Shaw and Harriet Sleight (Slight), both Liberated Africans possibly from modern-day Ghana or Nigeria.