John William Mackail OM FBA (26 August 1859 – 13 December 1945) was a Scottish academic of Oxford University and reformer of the British education system...
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next biographer was Burne-Jones's son-in-law John William Mackail, who authored the two-volume Life of William Morris (1899) in which he provided a sympathetic...
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Hugh Mackail (c. 1640–1666), Scottish martyr John William Mackail (1859–1945), Scottish man of letters This page lists people with the surname Mackail. If...
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mother-in-law of John William Mackail, who married her daughter Margaret. Their children were the novelists Angela Thirkell, Denis Mackail and Clare Mackail. Georgiana...
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conspiracy trials John Majhor (1953–2007), Canadian radio and television host John William Mackail (1859–1945), Scottish academic John Masius (born 1950)...
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Virgil's Aeneid Translated by John Dryden (1697). The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English by John William Mackail (1885), Book Fourth: The Love of...
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Goold, editor, translated by Francis Warre Cornish, John Percival Postgate, John William Mackail, second edition, revised (Harvard University Press, 1988)...
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Oxford; it is the poetry of Oxford made, in some sense, complete. — John William Mackail "The Scholar Gipsy" represents very closely the ghost of each one...
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William Macewen FRS (1848–1924), surgeon John William Mackail, writer and scholar Christopher Priest, writer Jane Ross, international footballer John...
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died in 1926. His adored daughter Margaret (died 1953) married John William Mackail (1850–1945), the friend and biographer of Morris, and Professor of...
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a week. About John William Mackail: I am tall and rather stately And I care not very greatly What you say, or what you do. I'm Mackail – and who are you...
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contemptuous words as versificator insulsissimus ("a most coarse poet"). John William Mackail concurs with Casaubon, writing that "this is true of a great part...
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Angela Thirkell (redirect from Angela Mackail)
under the pseudonym Leslie Parker. Angela Margaret Mackail was the elder daughter of John William Mackail (1859–1945), a Scottish classical scholar and civil...
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Roman spirit than the frontiers of the Roman empire". According to John William Mackail, "Cicero's unique and imperishable glory is that he created the language...
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middle-class London, was republished in 2002. Mackail was born in Kensington, London, on 3 June 1892, to John William Mackail and Margaret Burne-Jones, the daughter...
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Arts and Crafts movement (section William Morris)
1968 Tim Hilton, John Ruskin, Vol.2 John Ruskin, The Two Paths Naylor 1971, pp. 96–97. Mackail, J. W. (2011). The Life of William Morris. New York: Dover...
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Red House, Bexleyheath (category William Morris)
135–141. Mackail 1901, pp. 138–139; Thompson 1955, p. 76; MacCarthy 1994, pp. 151–152. Mackail 1901, p. 139. Mackail 1901, p. 140. Mackail 1901, pp. 140–141;...
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leading members recognised his importance. John William Mackail, friend and official biographer of William Morris, wrote, that in the years of Morris...
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Spring Rice and Edward Grey. Spring Rice contributed, alongside John William Mackail, to the composition of a famous sardonic doggerel about Curzon that...
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of medievalism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. John William Mackail wrote that during William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones' days at Oxford, "Carlyle's...
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March 1942 Painter 59. Sir William Henry Bragg 3 June 1931 2 July 1862 – 10 March 1942 Physicist 60. John William Mackail 1 January 1935 26 August 1859...
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earlier done with his 1933 essay "How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?" (John Britton has pointed out that this was never a question actually posed by...
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Mac Gurcaigh Duncan Ban MacIntyre James McIntyre John William Mackail Barbara Mackay Charles Mackay John Henry Mackay Lachlan Mackinnon Ewart Alan Mackintosh...
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in time the mother-in-law of John William Mackail and grandmother of Denis Mackail and Angela Thirkell (born Angela Mackail).[citation needed] Agnes was...
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contemporary and close friend of John Strachey and Edward Grey. However, Spring Rice contributed, alongside John William Mackail, to the composition of a famous...
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1917–1921 The Earl of Balfour 1921–1928 H. A. L. Fisher 1928–1932 John William Mackail 1932–1936 Sir David Ross 1936–1940 Sir J. H. Clapham 1940–1946 Sir...
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thine own Apollo reigns." Eclogue 4 (ll. 4–11), as translated by John William Mackail; this section illustrates the poem's references to the Cumaean Sibyl...
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Hugh Mackail (various spellings) (c. 1640–1666), Scottish martyr, was born about 1640 at Liberton, near Edinburgh. His father was Matthew Mackail who was...
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Henry Fisher (1918–19) Sir William Osler (1919– ) Walter Leaf (1921– ) Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner (1921–22) John William Mackail (1923–4) Robert Crewe-Milnes...
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Craig Anthony Robert Mackail-Smith (born 25 February 1984) is a retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He played in the English Football...
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