A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
=Macaulay, Thomas Bassett, F.I.A., F.S.A., F.S.S.=, of Montreal,
occupies a high position in Canadian finance, and is besides an
insurance expert of international fame. He was born at Hamilton, Ont.,
on June 6, 1860, the son of Robertson and Barbara Maria (Reid) Macaulay,
and educated at Hamilton and Montreal. He entered the service of the Sun
Life Assurance Company of Canada at Montreal in 1877 and by 1880, when
but twenty years of age, he had so qualified himself in the science of
insurance that he was made Actuary. In 1891 he was appointed Secretary
of the Company, and in 1898 was elected a Director. In 1906 he became
Managing Director of the Sun Life and in 1915 President, succeeding his
late father. Under his direction the company has enjoyed an immense
expansion on sound and conservative lines, and its President is
recognized in financial circles the world over as an expert in insurance
and master of business organization. The head offices are on Dominion
Square, Montreal, but it has many branches in Canada and other parts of
the world. Mr. Macaulay is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of
Great Britain, a Charter Member of the Actuarial Society of America, and
a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He was elected Vice-President
to represent the Actuaries of the United States and Canada at the
International Congress of Actuaries held at Paris in 1900, and again at
the Congress held in Berlin, Germany, 1906. He is Past President of the
Life Insurance Officers’ Association of Canada. His financial interests
are by no means confined to insurance however. He is a director of The
National Trust Company of Toronto, a Director of the Dominion Glass
Company, a Director of the Illinois Traction Company, a Director of the
Western Railways and Light Company, and a Director of the Barcelona
Railway, Light and Power Co. Mr. Macaulay has taken a great interest in
the development of closer relations between Canada and other British
possessions in North America, and is President of the Canadian and West
Indian League. The Navy League of Canada, of which Mr. Macaulay is
Honorary President, has his active support. His chief recreation is
farming, and his hobby, the breeding of fine stock. In religion he is a
Congregationalist and has been twice married, firstly in 1881 to
Henrietta (deceased daughter of O. T. Bragg, New Orleans); secondly in
1912 to Margaret (deceased), daughter of Rev. William Allen, London,
England. He has two sons and three daughters, and resides on Westmount
Boulevard, Westmount, Quebec.
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