He was the first principal and founder of CMS Grammar School, Lagos, and father of Nigerian nationalist Herbert Macaulay.
[3] Thomas Babington Macaulay was born in Kissy, Sierra Leone, on 17 January 1826 to Yoruba parents who were liberated by the British West Africa Squadron from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.
[2] That same year, Macaulay was ordained by bishop Owen Vidal in Lagos with Thomas King, and were the first Africans admitted to the ministry of the Anglican Church upon their own soil.
[6] Macaulay died on his birthday (17 January 1878) from smallpox in Lagos [2] and was buried at Ajele Cemetery.
Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary, a co-educational boarding school in Ikorodu, Lagos, is named after him.