Retirement and Later Life
In retirement Macaulay lived partly in Argyll, where he was a reputed good field shooter, and cultivated a famous rock garden at Kirnan where he bred Gentiana Macaulayi, named after himself. He also made regular visits to India, Burma and Siam (now Thailand).
He died at Hampstead, London, in December 1937, aged seventy-nine, and was buried at Hampstead Parish Church.
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