John William Mackail

John William Mackail
Born26 August 1859
Ascog, Bute, Scotland
Died13 December 1945 (aged 86)
London, England
SpouseMargaret Burne-Jones
Children3
Academic background
EducationAyr Academy
Alma materEdinburgh University
Balliol College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Poetry

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.

Mackail was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1906 to 1911, and president of the British Academy from 1932 to 1936.