Perinatal lessons from the past
Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): population growth and birth control
Department of Child Health
University of BristolSouthmead Hospital
Southmead Road Bristol BS10 5NB
Correspondence to: Professor Peter Dunn.
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
Thomas Robert Malthus was the second and last son in a family
of eight. He was born with a hare lip and cleft palate at the Rookery,
near Dorking in Surrey on 14 February 1766. His father Daniel, a close
friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, arranged for him to be educated
privately. In 1784 at the age of 18, he entered Jesus College,
Cambridge, where he skated, rowed, played cricket and had a lively
social life. He also won prizes for declamations in Latin and Greek,
and in 1788 graduated as Ninth Wrangler. The same year he took Holy
Orders and in 1796 accepted an Anglican curacy at Albury in Surrey.
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
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in ADC Online
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
