Aulay Macaulay (1758–1819) was a Scottish writer and clergyman of the
Church of England
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.
Life
He was the eldest son of John Macaulay, by his second wife Margaret Campbell;
Colin Macaulay
Colin Macaulay (13 April 1760 – 20 February 1836), was a Scottish general, biblical scholar and key activist in the campaign to abolish slavery.
Early life
Macaulay was a son of the Rev. John Macaulay (1720–1789), minister in the Church of ...
and
Zachary Macaulay
Zachary Macaulay ( gd, Sgàire MacAmhlaoibh; 2 May 1768 – 13 May 1838) was a Scottish statistician and abolitionist who was a founder of London University and of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and a Governor of British Sierra Leone ...
were brothers, and
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1 ...
was his nephew. He graduated M.A. at
Glasgow University
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in 1778. After acting for three years as tutor to the sons of
Joseph Foster Barham I
Joseph Foster Barham I (1729–1789) was the English owner of the Mesopotamia plantation in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. Originally Joseph Foster, he took Barham as an additional surname (1750) for Henry Barham M.D., son of Henry Barham F.R.S., ...
at
Bedford
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, he took holy orders, and obtained a curacy at
Claybrooke,
Leicestershire. He remained there until 1789, when he became rector of
Frolesworth
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; but then resigned the living after a year, in 1790.
He had been admitted as a
sizar
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in 1785 at
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, but is not known to have graduated.
In 1793 Macaulay went on a tour in Holland and Belgium, an account of which he wrote for the 1793–4; and next year, as travelling tutor to a son of Sir Walter Farquhar, he visited the court of
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and gave English lessons to his daughter
Caroline of Brunswick
Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) was Queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 29 January 1820 until her death in 1821, being the estranged wife of King George IV. She was Pri ...
, who later married the future
George IV of the United Kingdom. In 1796, after his return, Macaulay was presented by his brother-in-law
Thomas Babington
Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple (; 18 December 1758 – 21 November 1837) was an English philanthropist and politician. He was a member of the Clapham Sect, alongside more famous abolitionists such as William Wilberforce and Hannah More. An ...
to the living of
Rothley
Rothley ( ) is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Charnwood in Leicestershire, England. Situated around west of the River Soar and north of Leicester, it had a population of 3,612 inhabitants . The population measured at the 201 ...
.
In 1815 Macaulay made another tour on the continent, and four years later, on 24 February 1819, died of
apoplexy
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.
Works
Macaulay published sermons, and:
* ''Essays on various Subjects of Taste and Criticism'', 1780.
* ''Two Discourses on Sovereign Power and Liberty of Conscience'', translated from the Latin of
Gerhard Noodt
Gerhard Noodt (4 September 1647 – 15 August 1725) was a Dutch jurist, born in Nijmegen. Educated at Leiden, Utrecht, and Franeker, he became a professor of law at the Nijmegen and the Franeker. As a writer on jurisprudence he acquired a wide r ...
, 1781.
While in residence at Glasgow Macaulay contributed to ''
Ruddiman's Magazine'', under the signature "Academicus". For
John Nichols's ''History of Leicestershire'' he wrote ''The History and Antiquities of Claybrooke, in the County of Leicester, including the Chapelries of Wibtoft, Little Wigston, and the Hamlets of Bittesby and Ullesthorpe''. His European travels were written up for the ''
Gentleman's Magazine
''The Gentleman's Magazine'' was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term '' magazine'' (from the French ''magazine' ...
''.
Family
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.
The second son, Colin Campbell Macaulay (1799–1853), became partner in a firm of solicitors at Leicester. 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. By his wife Mary Kendall, eldest daughter of Richard Warner Wood, he left a son and a daughter.
The politician
Kenneth Macaulay was his younger brother.
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Attribution
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1758 births
1819 deaths
18th-century Scottish Episcopalian priests
Scottish translators
Scottish antiquarians
18th-century British translators