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Nationality
  
Scottish

Occupation
  
bookseller; publisher

Name
  
Daniel MacMillan


Daniel MacMillan

Born
  
13 September 1813 (
1813-09-13
)

Died
  
27 June 1867(1867-06-27) (aged 53)Cambridge, England

Daniel MacMillan (Scottish Gaelic: Dòmhnall MacMhaolain; 13 September 1813 – 27 June 1857) was a Scottish publisher from the Isle of Arran, Scotland.

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Life

Daniel MacMillan was born on 13 September 1813, in the Isle of Arran to a crofting family. Moving to London, he founded Macmillan Publishers, with his brother Alexander.

In 1833, he came to London to work for a Cambridge bookseller. In 1844, he decided to expand into the publishing business.

Macmillan, with the recommendation of his brother Alexander, sent George Edward Brett to open the first American office in New York.

He died at Cambridge on 27 June 1857. He is buried in the Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge.

Family

He married, on 4 September 1850, Frances, daughter of a Mr Orridge, a chemist in Cambridge. They had two sons, Frederick (born 1851) and Maurice Crawford Macmillan (1853–1936). Maurice married Helen (Nellie) Artie Tarleton Belles (1856–1937), and their son Maurice Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister.

References

Daniel MacMillan Wikipedia


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