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

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. MacMillan was one of the co-founders of

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along with his brother

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in London.

Life

Daniel MacMillan was born on 13 September 1813 on the farm of Achog, just north of Corrie on the Isle of Arran, to a

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family. Moving to London, he founded

, with his brother

. 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

, sent

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to open the first American office in New York. He died in

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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

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