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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. He is most often remembered as a scholar of Virgil and as the official biographer of the socialist artist William Morris, of whom he was a friend.
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Aug 29, 2007 · Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945: Title: The Aeneid of Virgil Note: See also PG#18466 tr. by E. Fairfax Taylor Credits: David Clarke, Lisa Reigel, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Language: English: LoC Class: PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature: Subject: Aeneas ...
John William Mackail, OM was a Scottish man of letters, academic of Oxford University, and scholar of Virgil. He was the official biographer of the socialist artist William Morris, of whom he was a friend. Mackail was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1906 to 1911, and President of the British Academy from 1932 to 1936.
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John William Mackail. (1859–1945) sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. O.M.; Scottish man of letters and socialist, best remembered as a Virgil scholar; poet; literary historian and biographer. This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900.
JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL, O.M. 247 academic career. But two years later he accepted from Lord Carlingford, the President of the Privy Council, an appointment as an Examiner in the Education Department of the Council, which subsequently became the Board of Education.
John William Mackail has 111 books on Goodreads with 2233 ratings. John William Mackail’s most popular book is Latin Literature.
