biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1813–57)
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| biography:
| Bookseller and publisher, born in Upper Corrie, I of Arran, Scotland, UK. He was apprenticed to boosksellers in Scotland and Cambridge from the age of 11 when his father died. In 1843 he and his brother Alexander Macmillan (1818–96), born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, opened a bookshop in London. In Cambridge they started publishing textbooks (1844), then novels, including Westward Ho! and Tom Brown's Schooldays. In the year after Daniel's death the firm opened a branch in London, and by 1893 had become a limited company, with Daniel's son, Frederick (1851–1936), as chairman. |
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