Old Photograph Largiebeg Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Largiebeg located at the southern end of Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran, Scotland.

Daniel MacMillan was born on 13 September 1813, on the Isle of Arran to a crofting family. In 1833, he moved to London, England, to work for a Cambridge bookseller. In 1844, he decided to expand into the publishing business and he founded Macmillan Publishers, with his brother Alexander. He then sent George Edward Brett to open the first American office in New York, USA. 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, born 1853. Maurice married Helen Nellie Artie Tarleton Belles, born 1856, died 1937, and their son Harold became Prime Minister of Britain. Harold died in Cambridge on 27 June 1857. He is buried in the Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge.



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