Kenneth Macaulay (politician)

{{Short description|English Conservative Party politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

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| name = Kenneth Macaulay

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| constituency_MP = Cambridge

| parliament = United Kingdom

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| birth_date = 1812

| birth_place = Rothley, Leicestershire, England

| death_date = 27 July 1867

| death_place = Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge, England

| nationality = English

| spouse = Harriet Woollcombe

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Kenneth Macaulay (1812 – 29 July 1867){{Rayment-hc|c|1|date=March 2012}} was an English Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1852 and 1865.

Macaulay was born on 30 September 1812 in Rothley, Leicestershire, England, the son of Rev. Aulay Macaulay, the vicar of Rothley.Leicestershire birth records He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1835.{{acad|id=FML831K|name=Macaulay, Kenneth}} He was a Cambridge Apostle; in 1843, he married Harriet Woollcombe, daughter of W. Woollcombe.

He was elected as a member of parliament for Cambridge at the 1852 general election,{{London Gazette

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|date= 20 July 1852

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but the a petition was lodged and the election was declared void on 1 March 1853. A royal commission was established, and the writ of election was suspended until 1854. Macaulay contested the Cambridge again at the 1857 general election, and regained his seat,{{London Gazette

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holding it until he stood down at the 1865 general election.{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885

|orig-date=1977

|edition= 2nd

|year=1989

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-26-4

|pages=76–77

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Macaulay died on 27 July 1867, in Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge.{{citation |title=Alumni cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900 |author=Venn, J. A. |volume=IV, pt II |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1951 |page=253 |url=https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri04univuoft }}