Daniel MacMillan (1813–1857) was a Scottish

Scotland

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 publisher from the Isle of Arran

Isle of Arran

Arran or the Isle of Arran is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, and with an area of is the seventh largest Scottish island. It is in the unitary council area of North Ayrshire and the 2001 census had a resident population of 5,058...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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Daniel MacMillan was born in the Isle of Arran

Isle of Arran

Arran or the Isle of Arran is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, and with an area of is the seventh largest Scottish island. It is in the unitary council area of North Ayrshire and the 2001 census had a resident population of 5,058...

 to a crofting

Crofting

Crofting is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production unique to the Scottish Highlands, the Islands of Scotland, and formerly on the Isle of Man....

 family. Moving to London, he founded Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...

, with his brother Alexander

Alexander Macmillan (publisher)

Alexander Macmillan, , born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. He was a cofounder, in 1843, with his brother Daniel of Macmillan Publishers...

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Macmillan, with the recommendation of his brother Alexander

Alexander Macmillan (publisher)

Alexander Macmillan, , born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. He was a cofounder, in 1843, with his brother Daniel of Macmillan Publishers...

, sent George Edward Brett

George Edward Brett

George Edward Brett opened the first American office of Macmillan Publishing called Macmillan & Co. of New York.-Career:Brett was assigned by Alexander Macmillan to create the New York Office in August 1869. Brett was aided in the creation of the New York office, by American firm Messrs Pott &...

 to open the first American office in New York.

His son, Maurice Crawford Macmillan (1853–1936) married Helen (Nellie) Artie Tarleton Belles (1856–1937), whose son Harold

Harold Macmillan

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....

 became British Prime Minister

Prime minister

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Additional reading

Macmillan A Publishing Tradition by Elizabeth James 2002 ISBN 0-333-73517-X

• The House of Macmillan (1843–1943) by Charles Morgan