Background
Macaulay was born on 6 August 1852, in Hodnet, Shropshire, England. He was the eldest son of Review Samuel Herrick Macaulay, who was a rector in Hodnet.
Macaulay was born on 6 August 1852, in Hodnet, Shropshire, England. He was the eldest son of Review Samuel Herrick Macaulay, who was a rector in Hodnet.
Trinity College.
He was the father of the fiction-writer Rose Macaulay. Their family descended, in the male-line, from the Macaulay family of Lewis. In 1878, George Campbell Macaulay married Grace Mary Conybeare, who was the daughter of Review
West. J. Conybeare.
Macaulay was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. 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.
In 1905, he lectured English at Cambridge. Macaulay was the editor of the Modern English Review (English Department).
Foreign 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.