George Campbell Macaulay

George Campbell Macaulay, 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, who was a Rector in Hodnet. Their family was descended, in the male-line, from the Macaulay family of Lewis. 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, an English author, was appointed as a DBE in 1958.

Macaulay was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. 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 the 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. 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.

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