Thomas Robert Malthus
1766–1834
Clergyman and political economist. First professor of history and political economy at the East India Company College, Haileybury, 1805–34. Quantified the relationship between growth in population and food supplies in An essay on the principle of population (1798). FRS 1818.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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