• Name: Malthus, Rev Thomas Robert
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 13  February  1766
• Death Date: 29  December  1834
• Occupation: political economist
• Occupation: clergyman

Thomas Malthus, the political economist, rose to prominence following his 1798 treatise An Essay on the Principle of Population which was inspired (negatively) by reading Godwin and Condorcet. Godwin met him first at Joseph Johnson's in 1798, who published Malthus's first edition. Godwin responded to Malthus famously in 1820 with his Of Population. Their relationship was always slightly strained, with Godwin feeling that Malthus was not taking into account the potential impact of moral restraint, but it became cooler after the second edition of the Essay in 1803 (when Godwin had written some short pieces defending his views, which Malthus ignored), and deteriorated still further after Godwin's own full length response - in part because Godwin sensed a conspiracy in the attacks it received from the political economy journals.

• DNB
• St Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys, p. 458
• Gerald P. Tyson, Joseph Johnson: A Liberal Publisher (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1979), p. 146 and pp. 193-4.

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