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Margaret Olwen MacMillan, (born 23 December 1943) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto , and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) .
Margaret McMillan was born to James and Jean McMillan in Westchester County, New York, on 20 July 1860. Her parents were from Inverness but had emigrated to the United States in 1840. When she was four an epidemic of Scarlet fever killed her father and sister and left Margaret deaf (she recovered her hearing at the age of fourteen).
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2001) is a historical narrative about the events of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.It was written by the Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan with a foreword by the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke.
Margaret McMillan College was a British teacher-training college in Bradford. It was established in 1952, [ 1 ] and was named after the nursery school pioneer, Margaret McMillan . The founding of the college and a trust was driven by McMillan's friend and supporter Miriam Lord , who campaigned from 1945 to raise funds. [ 2 ]
Historian Margaret MacMillan writing for The New York Times calls the book a "good wake up call", [4] while Tim Adams in a review for The Guardian describes the book as "persuasive", "chilling and unignorable" [3] and a review in Fair Observer calls it an "important addition to the literature explaining current events" and rising authoritarianism.
Snow was born in Dublin, the son of John FitzGerald Snow and Margaret Mary Pringle. [citation needed] He is the grandson of First World War general Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow; first cousin of Jon Snow, the presenter of Channel 4 News from 1989 to 2021; nephew of schoolmaster and bishop George D'Oyly Snow; and brother-in-law of historian-writer Margaret MacMillan.
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Through his mother, he is the nephew of Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan and also a great-great-grandson of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. [3] Snow was educated in London at Westfield Primary School (now Barnes Primary) and at St Paul's School where he was Captain of School and rowed for its VIII.