George Campbell Macaulay

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

George Campbell Macaulay
Born	6 August 1852 Hodnet, Shropshire, England
Died	6 July 1915 (aged 62)
Spouse(s)	Grace Mary Conybeare
Children	2 sons, 4 daughters
Parent(s)	Rev. Samuel Herrick Macaulay (father)

Family

Macaulay was born on 6 August 1852, in Hodnet, Shropshire, England, as the eldest son of Rev. Samuel Herrick Macaulay, who was a Rector in Hodnet.[1] Their family descended, in the male-line, from the Macaulay family of Lewis.[2][note 1] In 1878, George Campbell Macaulay married Grace Mary Conybeare, who was the daughter of Rev. W. J. Conybeare. Together the couple had two sons and four daughters.[4] Their second child was Rose Macaulay (born 1881), an English author who was appointed as a DBE in 1958.[2]

Education, career, later life

Macaulay in 1873 (far left), Shakespeare Society, Trinity College, Cambridge

Macaulay was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.[5] Macaulay was also a Fellow of Trinity College, at Cambridge, and from 1878 to 1887 Assistant Master at Rugby School. From 1901 to 1907, he was Professor of English Language and Literature at University College of Wales, at Aberystwyth.[4] In 1905, he lectured on English at Cambridge.[2] Macaulay was the editor of the Modern English Review (English Department).[2] 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.[2][6] He also resided at Southernwood, Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, and died there on 6 July 1915.[2][4]

Publications

Macaulay had a number of publications, of which the following can be freely read and downloaded at the Internet Archive.

• Herodotus (1890). Macaulay, G. C. (ed.). The History of Herodotus, translated into English. 1. London: Macmillan and Company.
• Herodotus (1890). Macaulay, G. C. (ed.). The History of Herodotus, translated into English. 2. London: Macmillan and Company.
• Tennyson, Alfred (1892). Macaulay, G. C. (ed.). Gareth and Lynette, with introduction and notes. London: Macmillan and Company.
• Tennyson, Alfred (1893). Macaulay, G. C. (ed.). The Holy Grail. London: Macmillan and Company.
• Tennyson, Alfred (1895). Macaulay, G. C. (ed.). Guinevere. London: Macmillan and Company.
• Herodotus (1896). Macaulay, G. C. (ed.). Herodotus: Book III. London: Macmillan and Company.
• Arnold, Matthew (1896). Macaulay, G. C. (ed.). Poems by Matthew Arnold, selected and edited. London: Macmillan and Company.
• Macaulay, G. C., ed. (1899). The Complete Works of John Gower, edited from the manuscripts with introductions, notes, and glossaries. 1. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. French Works
• Macaulay, G. C., ed. (1901). The Complete Works of John Gower, edited from the manuscripts with introductions, notes, and glossaries. 2. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. first half of Confessio Amantis(to V.1970)
• Macaulay, G. C., ed. (1901). The Complete Works of John Gower, edited from the manuscripts with introductions, notes, and glossaries. 3. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. second half of Confessio Amantis (from V.1970)
• Macaulay, G. C., ed. (1902). The Complete Works of John Gower, edited from the manuscripts with introductions, notes, and glossaries. 4. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. Gower biography and Latin Works
• Froissart, Jean (1908). Macaulay, G. C. (ed.). The Chronicles of Froissart. Bourchier, John. London: Macmillan and Company.
• Macaulay, G. C., ed. (1908). James Thomson. London: Macmillan and Company.
• Macaulay, George Campbell (1883). Francis Beaumont: A Critical Study. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Company.

Notes

1. Rev. Samuel Herrick Macaulay was the son of John Heyrick Macaulay (1799–1840).[1] John Heyrick Macaulay was the son of Rev. Aulay Macaulay (1758–1819), vicar of Rothley, Leicestershire.[3]

References

1. Venn, J. A. (1951), Alumni cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900, vol IV, pt II, Cambridge University Press, p. 252
2. Crawford, Alice (1995), Paradise pursued: the novels of Rose Macaulay, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. 16–17, ISBN 978-0-8386-3573-5.
3. Rugby School Register: Volume I, with annotations and alphabetical index, Rugby: A. J. Lawrence, 1881, p. 101.
4. Who was who: A companion to "Who's who", containing the biographies of those who died during the period, 1897–1916, London: A. & C. Black Limited, 1920, pp. 445–446.
5. "Macaulay, George Campbell (FML872GC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
6. Rugby School Register: Volume III, revised and annotated with alphabetical Index, Rugby: A. J. Lawrence, 1891, p. xi.

Further reading

• Annan, Noel (1955), "The Intellectual Aristocracy", in Plumb, John H. (ed.), Studies in Social History: A Tribute to G. M. Trevelyan, London: Longmans

External links

• Works by George Campbell Macaulay at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about George Campbell Macaulay at Internet Archive
• Works by George Campbell Macaulay at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)