To make up for the not wholly geography related "Geography trip to Wales", this is actually going to be sensible. 

Geo Profile: Thomas Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus was born near Guildford, Surrey, 1766. Malthus went to Cambridge University, earning a master's degree in 1791. In 1793, he was made a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1805, Malthus became professor of history and political economy at the East India Company's college in Haileybury, where he remained until his death.

Malthus plans world domination

In 1819, Malthus was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and two years later he became a member of the Political Economy Club, whose members included David Ricardo and James Mill. In 1824, he was elected as one of the 10 royal associates of    the Royal Society of Literature. Malthus was also one of the co-founders of the                                                                                                                                                  
Statistical Society of London in 1834.

Malthus' most well known work 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' was published in 1798,  The main tenets of his argument were radically opposed to current thinking at the time. He argued that increases in population would eventually diminish the ability of the world to feed itself and based this conclusion on the thesis that populations expand in such a way as to overtake the development of sufficient land for crops. Associated with Darwin, whose theory of natural selection was influenced by Malthus' analysis of population growth, Malthus was often misinterpreted, but his views became popular again in the 20th century with the advent of Keynesian economics.

Malthus died on 23 December 1834, and remains Dr Fyfe's least favourite of the two geographers whose views are taught in year 12, partly because Malthus is more depressing than Boserup, and secondly because he's a man.