Alexander Macmillan
1818–96
Scottish publisher. Co-founder with his brother Daniel of the firm Macmillan & Co. in 1843. After moving the firm’s headquarters from Cambridge to London in the early 1860s, began commissioning textbooks on botany, chemistry, and geology for children in elementary schools.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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