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MACMILLAN , the name of a See also:family of See also:English publishers. The founders of the See also:firm were two Scotsmen, See also:Daniel Macmillan (1813-18J7) and his younger See also:brother See also:Alexander (1818-1896). Daniel was a native of the Isle of See also:Arran, and Alexander was See also:born in See also:Irvine on the 3rd of See also:October 1818. Daniel was for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time assistant to the bookseller See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson at See also:Cambridge, but entered the employ of Messrs See also:Seeley in See also:London in 1837; in 1843 he began business in Aldersgate See also:Street, and in the same See also:year the two See also:brothers See also:purchased the business of Newby in Cambridge. They did not confine themselves to See also:bookselling, but published educational See also:works as See also:early as 1844. In 1845 they became the proprietors of the more important business of See also:Stevenson, in See also:Cam-See also:bridge, the firm being styled Macmillan, See also:Barclay & Macmillan. In r85o Barclay retired and the firm resumed the name of Macmillan & Co. Daniel Macmillan died at Cambridge on the 27thof See also:June 1857. In that year an impetus was given to the business by the publication of See also:Kingsley's Two Years Ago. A See also:branch See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was opened in 1858 in Henrietta Street, London, which led to a See also:great See also:extension of See also:trade. These premises were surrendered for larger ones in See also:Bedford Street, and in 1897 the buildings in St See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin's Street were opened. Alexander Macmillan died in See also:January 1896. By his great See also:energy and See also:literary associations, and with the aid of his partners, there had been built up in little over See also:half a See also:century one of the most important See also:publishing houses in the See also:world. Besides the issue of many important See also:series of educational and scientific works, they published the works of Kingsley, See also:Huxley, See also:Maurice, See also:Tennyson, See also:Lightfoot, See also:Westcott, J. R. See also:Green, See also:Lord See also:Roberts,See also:Lewis See also:Carroll, and of many other well-known authors. In 1898 they took over the old-established publishing See also:house of R. See also:Bentley & Son, and with it the works of Mrs See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Wood, See also:Miss Rhoda See also:Broughton, The Ingoldsby Legends, and also See also:Temple See also:Bar and the See also:Argosy. In 1893 the firm was converted into a limited liability See also:company, its chairman being See also:Frederick Macmillan (b. 1851), who was knighted in 1909. The See also:American firm of the Macmillan Company, of which he was also a director, is a See also:separate business.
See See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Hughes, Memoir of Daniel Macmillan(188z) ; A See also:Bibliographical See also:Catalogue of Macmillan ee Co's Publications from 1843 to 1889 (1891), with portraits of the brothers Daniel and Alexander after Lowes See also:Dickinson and See also:Hubert Herkomer; also articles in Le Livre (See also:September 1886), Publishers' Circular (January 14, 1893), the Bookman (May 1901), &c.
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