Anne Macaulay

Anne Macaulay
Born	11 March 1924 Fife, Scotland
Died	1998
Residence	Scotland
Nationality	British
Known for	Pythagorean mathematics, music and stone circles

Anne Macaulay (11 March 1924 – 1998) was a British musicologist, author and lecturer.

Anne was born in Aithernie, Fife in Scotland near Lundin standing stones, the youngest child of Sir David and Alison Russell. Her family soon moved to Silverburn near Lundin Links where her father managed a paper-making business through the Great Depression and had interests in religion, archaeology, industry and a good sense of family values. She attended St Leonards School in St Andrews during the Second World War going on to briefly attend the University of Edinburgh which she departed for South Africa she learnt to become an aeroplane pilot. Around this time her brother, Patrick Russell died and she accompanied her father to Istanbul where he had funded an archaeological excavation. It was here that she met Bill Macaulay, curator of the Glasgow Museum of Art and an expert in mosaics and Byzantine art whom her father held in high esteem. In 1953, they married and moved to Johnsburn House in Balerno near the Pentland Hills.

Macaulay had five children, the last in 1957, when she began to develop an interest in classical guitar, which she learnt to play to an exceptionally high standard. This led her on to an interest in Pythagorean mathematics and its relationship with music. It was from this that her interest in stone circles and prehistoric geometry developed and she began to read the work of Alexander Thom. Over the next several years, she proceeded to resurvey much of Thom's work and travelled widely to Turkey, Malta, Egypt, Greece and throughout the British Isles in search of further evidence of his ideas.

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