LC control no. | no2017146299 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Macmillan, Daniel, 1813-1857 |
Variant(s) | MacMhaolain, Dòmhnall, 1813-1857 |
Birth date | 1813-09-13 |
Death date | 1857-06-27 |
Place of birth | Arran, Island of (Scotland) |
Place of death | Cambridge (England) |
Affiliation | Macmillan Publishers |
Profession or occupation | Publishers and publishing |
Found in | Notes & queries, 2015: volume 62, issue 3, page 430-435 (Nature's motto: Wordsworth and the Macmillans; discusses the publishing work of Alexander and Daniel Macmillan in relation to William Wordsworth) Wikipedia, 8 November 2017 (Daniel MacMillan; Daniel MacMillan (Scottish Gaelic: Dòmhnall MacMhaolain); born 13 September 1813 on the Isle of Arran; died 27 June 1857 in Cambridge, England; publisher; in 1833, he came to London to work for a Cambridge bookseller; in 1844, he decided to expand into the publishing business; moving to London, he founded Macmillan Publishers, with his brother Alexander; Macmillan, with the recommendation of Alexander, sent George Edward Brett to open the first American office in New York; grandfather of Maurice Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963) |
Associated language | eng |