Macmillan, Daniel (1813–1857)

Scottish publisher. He became senior partner of a business founded in 1843, which was carried on successfully after his death by his younger brother Alexander (1818–1896).

He was apprenticed and employed as a bookseller in Irvine and Glasgow before moving to work in London and then in Cambridge.

Cambridge was the headquarters of the brothers' own business until Alexander moved it in 1863 to London, where he had opened a branch in 1858. In 1869 a branch was opened in New York which subsequently (1951) became an independently incorporated firm (The Macmillan Co., New York) of general and textbook publishers. At the same time this firm became wholly US-owned. The parent company, Macmillan Ltd, is a private firm still owned by the Macmillan family. There are subsidiary and associated companies throughout the English-speaking world.