Daniel MacMillan
Daniel MacMillan | |
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Born |
Isle of Arran, Scotland | 13 September 1813
Died |
27 June 1867 53) Cambridge, England | (aged
Nationality | Scottish |
Occupation | bookseller; publisher |
Daniel MacMillan (Scottish Gaelic: DΓ²mhnall MacMhaolain; 13 September 1813β27 June 1867) was a Scottish publisher from the Isle of Arran, Scotland.
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.[1][2]
In 1833, he came to London to work for a Cambridge bookseller. In 1844, he decided to expand into the publishing business.[3]
Macmillan, with the recommendation of his brother Alexander, sent George Edward Brett to open the first American office in New York.[4]
He died at Cambridge on 27 June 1867.[3] He is buried in the Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge.
Family
He married, on 4 September 1860, Frances, daughter of a Mr Orridge, a chemist in Cambridge. They had two sons, Frederick (born 1861) and Maurice Crawford Macmillan (1863β1936). Maurice married Helen (Nellie) Artie Tarleton Belles (1856β1937), and their son Harold became Prime Minister.
References
- β History
- β "PUBLISHING: Crofter's Crop". Time. 1951-01-22. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
- 1 2 Seccombe, Thomas (1893). "Macmillan, Daniel". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- β Crocker, Samuel (1893). The Literary World. E. H. Hames and Company. p. 276.
Further reading
- Elizabeth James Macmillan A Publishing Tradition, 2002, ISBN 0-333-73517-X
- Charles Morgan, The House of Macmillan (1843β1943)