George Campbell Macaulay

George Campbell Macaulay (6 August 1852 – 6 July 1915), also known as G. C. Macaulay, was a noted English classical scholar. His daughter was the fiction writer Rose Macaulay.

Family Macaulay was born on 6 August 1852, in Hodnet, Shropshire, England, the eldest son of Rev. Samuel Herrick Macaulay (son of Aulay Macaulay), who was a Rector in Hodnet. Their family was descended, in the male-line, from the Macaulay family of Lewis. |group=note 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.

Education, career, later life

Macaulay was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Macaulay was also a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and from 1878 to 1887 Assistant Master at Rugby School. From 1901 to 1907, he was the Professor of English Language and Literature at University College of Wales, at Aberystwyth. 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.

French Works first half of Confessio Amantis(to V.1970) second half of Confessio Amantis (from V.1970) Gower biography and Latin Works