Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge
From Wikipedia:
George Campbell Macaulay (1852–1915), also known as G. C. Macaulay, was a noted English
Classical scholar. He was the father of the well-known
English author Rose Macaulay.
Family
Macaulay was born on 6 August, 1852, in
Hodnet, Shropshire, England. He was 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.[6] One of their daughters, their second child, was
Rose Macaulay (born 1881),[2] an
English author who was made a
Dame of the British Empire (DBE), in 1958.
Education, career, later life
Macaulay was educated at
Eton and
Trinity College, Cambridge.[7] Macaulay was also a Fellow of Trinity College, at Cambridge. From 1878 to 1887, he Assistant Master at
Rugby School. From 1901 to 1907, he was Professor of English Language and Literature at
University College of Wales, at Aberystwyth.[6] In 1905, he lectured English at Cambridge.[2] 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