# Douglas Macmillan

douglas macmillan MBE (10 August 1884 – 9 January 1969) was a British civil servant, and founder of the Macmillan Cancer Support charity, now one of the largest charities in the UK. == Biography == He was born on 10 August 1884, in Castle Cary, Somerset, England, the seventh of eight children of William Macmillan (1844–1911) and his wife Emily (1843–1937). He was educated at Sexey's School, Bruton (1894–1897), the Quaker Sidcot School, Winscombe (1897–1901), and then at the Birkbeck, University of London in 1901. Macmillan entered the civil service in London in 1902 and worked in the Board of Agriculture and, later, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, retiring as a staff officer in 1945.