Thomas Bassett Macaulay

[2] Robertson Macaulay married Barbara Marie Reid, and moved his family to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, when he was offered a position there with Sun Life Assurance Company.

[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.

[3] Macaulay created a fund of £10,000 to assist the seafaring people of his father's hometown, Fraserburgh, Scotland.

He gave money to the public library on the Isle of Lewis, erected a wing in the Island's hospital and established the Macaulay Experimental Farm.

[3] It has been stated that most of the world's pure-bred Holstein cattle descend from Macaulays herd, raised on his farm in Quebec.

[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] In 1881, Macaulay married Henrietta M. L. Bragg, from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.