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( Thomas Malthus)
The English political economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 – 23 December[1] 1834) analyzed population growth and noted the potential for populations to increase rapidly, often faster than the food supply available to them. Commentators may refer to such a runaway scenario, as outlined in Malthus's treatise An Essay on the Principle of Population, as a "Malthusian catastrophe". Modern commentators generally refer to him as Thomas Malthus, but during his lifetime he went by his middle name, Robert. Malthus married his cousin, Harriet, on April 12, 1804, and had three children Henry, Emily and Lucy. In 1805 he became Britain's first professor in political economy at the East India Company College (now known as Haileybury) in Hertfordshire. His students affectionately referred to him as "Pop" or "Population" Malthus. In 1818 Malthus became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Malthus refused to have his portrait painted until 1833 because of embarrassment over a cleft lip. Malthus also had a cleft palate that affected his speech. Such cleft-related birth defects occurred relatively frequently amongst his relatives.
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