Background
He was the eldest son of John Macaulay, by his second wife Margaret Campbell. Colin Macaulay and Zachary Macaulay were brothers, and Thomas Babington Macaulay was his nephew.
He was the eldest son of John Macaulay, by his second wife Margaret Campbell. Colin Macaulay and Zachary Macaulay were brothers, and Thomas Babington Macaulay was his nephew.
He graduated Master of Arts He had been admitted as a sizar in 1785 at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, but is not known to have graduated.
At Glasgow University in 1778. After acting for three years as tutor to the sons of Joseph Foster Barham I at Bedford, he took holy orders, and obtained a curacy at Claybrooke, Leicestershire. He remained there until 1789, when he became rector of Frolesworth.
But then resigned the living after a year, in 1790.
In 1815 Macaulay made another tour on the continent, and four years later, on 24 February 1819, died of apoplexy. Macaulay married Ann, daughter of John Heyrick the town clerk of Leicester.
They had eight sons. The abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick was Ann"s sister-in-law.
He was president of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1847, and contributed to their transactions. He died on 20 October 1853 at Knighton Lodge, Leicester, and was buried at Rothley.
The politician Kenneth Macaulay was another son.