- His full name was Herbert Samuel Heelas Macaulay
- He was born in 1861, the year Lagos was ceded to Queen Victoria
- He was the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the first Anglican Bishop of West Africa
- He was educated in England as a civil engineer but abandoned engineering for politics and journalism
- He was popularly called “HM” and the “Wizard of Kirsten Hall”
- His library contained old books, documents and records, some of which belonged to his grandfather, Bishop Ajayi Crowther
- He learned to play the violin in England, and took part in public concerts
- He served terms of imprisonment for sedition
- His eldest son, Frank, died in the mid-thirties
- He was the first president of the NCNC (National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons)
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