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Donald Macmillan (or McMillan) was born in Kintail. This is a beautiful area of the Scottish Highlands, north of Fort William on the road to the Isle of Skye. It is fairly near to the west coast. His father was John Macmillan. Donald was a student at Aberdeen University, graduating with an M.A. in 1876.
Macmillan became Principal of Clifton Bank School, St Andrews. We should give a few details about this school. The main school in St Andrews was (and still is) Madras College, founded by Dr Andrew Bell in 1832. The school had many boarders and there were houses around the town for them run by masters at the school. John Paterson came to Madras College as an assistant master in 1851 and ran one of these boarding houses with the assistance of a Mr Pennycook whom he employed as a tutor. In 1856 Paterson resigned his position as a Madras master "because of the extent to which his boarding establishment has increased". He then ran his boarding house as the independent Clifton Bank School. It was this school that Macmillan took over.
He joined the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in March 1887 when the Society was in its sixth session, four years after it was founded. He remained a member of the Society until 1906.
After he retired as Principal of Clifton Bank School, St Andrews, Macmillan went to live in the village of Newton of Falkland in Fife.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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