“ In 1870 he was presented by Magdalen College to the rectory of Ducklington, which he held until 1912, uniting with it for some years the small rectory of Yelford.
Appointed at the age of 14 assistant in the Bodleian Library, he remained in the service of that institution till 1905, when he retired on a pension. In 1891 Magdalen College elected him a "Research Fellow," to continue the College Register begun by Dr. Bloxam. ”

“ A man of good ability and admirable method and diligence, Macray made large additions to the volume of historical and archæogical knowledge. His first work was a manual of British historians down to A.D. 1600, published in 1845, when the author was only 19. ”