Malthus
THOMAS ROBERT, an English political economist; born in Albury, Surrey, England, Feb. 14, 1766. He was appointed about 1805, Professor of History and Political Economy in the college of the East India Company at Haileybury, and continued to hold that situation till his death. His best known work, the "Essay on the Principle of Population," first appeared in 1798. It was subsequently enlarged, and passed through many editions. The Malthusian system is founded on the hypothesis that MALVERN HILL population increases in a geometrical, while provisions on only increase in an arithmetical ratio. He died in Bath Dec. 29, 1834.