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Born in Edinburgh on 22 May 1817, was he was the eldest son of the physician Alexander Macaulay (1783–1868).
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Born in Edinburgh on 22 May 1817, was he was the eldest son of the physician Alexander Macaulay (1783–1868).
He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. He graduated both Master of Arts
He then went to Edinburgh University, where after taking the arts course, he took up medicine. And Doctor of Medicine at Edinburgh in 1838. He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on 7 July 1862.
Macaulay gave up medicine for literature and journalism.
Settling in London, he joined the staff of the Literary Gazette in 1850. In 1858 he became editor of two weekly periodicals, The Leisure Hour (founded in 1852) and Sunday at Home (founded in 1864), and held the posts till 1895.
Both papers had moral and religious aims, and a circulation among young readers. Macaulay"s contributors to The Leisure Hour, who were usually anonymous, included at the outset Richard Whately, and later Frank Buckland, Canon George Rawlinson, and Arminius Vambery.
Macaulay was also for many years general editor for the Religious Tract Society.
The Boy"s Own Paper and the Girl"s Own Paper were founded in 1879 and edited under his direction. Macaulay died at 41 Wynnstay Gardens, Kensington, on 18 June 1902. Macaulay married in 1860 Fanny Stokes, daughter of the Review
George Stokes, vicar of Hope, Hanley, Staffordshire.
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