page_title: John William Mackail
hierarchical_section_title: John William Mackail
caption_attribution_description: English: Platinum print photographic portrait of Bowyer Nichols, J. W. Mackail, and H. C. Beeching, c. 1882
context_page_description: John William Mackail OM was a Scottish academic of Oxford University and reformer of the British education system.
  He is most often remembered as a scholar of Virgil or as 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.
context_section_description: John William Mackail OM (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 or as 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.
caption: Bowyer Nichols, J. W. Mackail, and H. C. Beeching, by Frederick Hollyer, c. 1882.
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