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On 13 March 1804, Thomas Malthus married Harriet Eckersall, the eldest daughter of his first cousins John and Catherine Eckersall, who lived near Bath. Harriet became well-known at Haileybury College for hosting gatherings of notable scientists; eleven years younger than Thomas, she survived him by thirty years, remarrying after his death.
Meantime he had been made a Fellow of his college and resided there intermittently until 1804 when he married Harriet Eckersall. The following year he was appointed to the East India Company’s newly founded college at Haileybury as the first professor of political economy in the British Isles (fig 1).
- Peter M Dunn
- 1998
Malthus himself married Harriet Eckersall at the age of 38 (late for the period) in 1804, a year after he became rector of Walesby, Lincolnshire. The couple had three children. First published anonymously, An Essay on Population scandalized many but quickly established Malthus as one of the leading economists in England.
On 12th April 1804, Thomas Robert Malthus, then 38, married Harriet Eckersall, who was 28, at the little church of Claverton, near Bath.
Malthus married Harriet Eckersall, his first cousin once removed, on April 12, 1804, and had three children, Henry, Emily, and Lucy. In 1805, he became Britain's first professor in political economy at the East India Company College at Hertford Heath, now known as Haileybury and Imperial Service College.
In 1804 Malthus married Harriet Eckersall; from 1805 until his death, he was Professor of Political Economy and Modern History at the college of the East India Company at Haileybury except for a visit to Ireland in 1817, and a trip to the Continent in 1825 for health reasons.
Feb 21, 2017 · He forfeited the Fellowship in 1804 upon marriage to Harriet Eckersall. The following year, Malthus was appointed Professor of Modern History and Political Economy in the newly founded East India College, the earliest chair of Political Economy in England.
