Norman MacColl
British man of letters; editor of the Athenæum (1843–1904)
Norman MacColl (21 August 1843 – 16 December 1904) was a Scottish man of letters, known as a Hispanist and editor of the Athenæum.
Life
Born on 31 August 1843 at 28 Ann Street, Edinburgh, he was the only child of Alexander Stewart MacColl and his wife Eliza Fulford of Crediton. His father was a classicist and kept a school in Edinburgh; he was brought up at home with his first cousin, Alice Gaunter, who married James R. Jackson.
MacColl entered Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1862, but migrated next year to Downing College, and was elected a scholar there in 1865. His coach Richard Shilleto encouraged outside reading, and he took a second class in the classical tripos of 1866. In 1869, He was elected a fellow of Downing, having won the Hare Prize in 1868. He graduated B.A. in 1866 and proceeded M.A. in 1869. He became a student of Lincoln's Inn on 21 January 1872, and was called to the bar on 17 November 1875.
At Cambridge, MacColl began an acquaintance with Sir Charles Dilke, proprietor of the Athenæum, and in 1871 Dilke appointed him editor of the magazine. He was in post up to the end of 1900, working without an assistant until 1896.
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