George Campbell Macaulay (6 August 1852 – 6 July 1915), also known as G. C. Macaulay, was a noted English
classical scholar
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. His daughter was the fiction writer
Rose Macaulay
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel '' The Towers of Trebizond'', about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. The story is seen as a spiritu ...
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Family
Macaulay was born on 6 August 1852, in
Hodnet, Shropshire
Hodnet is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The town of Market Drayton lies 5.7 miles (9.2 km) north-east of the village.
History
Evidence of a Bronze Age burial site was discovered during construction of the bypass in ...
, England, the eldest son of Rev. Samuel Herrick Macaulay, who was a
Rector
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Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
in Hodnet.
Their family descended, in the
male-line, from the
Macaulay family of Lewis
The Macaulay family of Uig in Lewis, known in Scottish Gaelic as ''Clann mhic Amhlaigh'', were a small family located around Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. There is no connection between the Macaulays of Lewis and C ...
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In 1878, George Campbell Macaulay married Grace Mary Conybeare, the daughter of Rev.
W. J. Conybeare. Together the couple had two sons and four daughters.
Their second child,
Rose Macaulay
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel '' The Towers of Trebizond'', about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. The story is seen as a spiritu ...
(born 1881), an English author, was appointed as a
DBE in 1958.
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Education, career, later life
Macaulay was educated at
Eton and
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...
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Macaulay was also a Fellow of Trinity College, at Cambridge, and from 1878 to 1887 Assistant Master at
Rugby School
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Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. ...
. From 1901 to 1907, he was Professor of English Language and Literature at
University College of Wales, at Aberystwyth.
In 1905, he lectured on English at Cambridge.
Macaulay was the editor of the ''Modern English Review'' (English Department).
For a time, he and his young family lived in
Varezze, a fishing village in Italy, due to a female family member's poor health.
[.] He also resided at Southernwood,
Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, and died there on 6 July 1915.
[.]
Publications
Macaulay had a number of publications, of which the following can be freely read and downloaded at the
Internet Archive
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* first half of Confessio Amantis(to V.1970)
* second half of Confessio Amantis (from V.1970)
* Gower biography and Latin Works
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