Macmillan, Alexander

First name(s)

Alexander

Surname

Macmillan

Position(s) held at King's College London

Professor of Indian Jurisprudence, 1899-[1904]

Education & professional details

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• Magistrate and Deputy Collector at Allahabad, 1866-8
• Assistant magistrate and Collector of Customs in Northwest India, 1868-76
• Under-secretary, 1876-1887
• Deputy Superintendent of the family Domains of the Maharahja of Benares, 1877 
• District and Sessions Judge, 1887-1894

Publications

• A Note on the Family History of the Maharaja of Benares
• Divers Ditties, 1895

Personal details

Date of birth

1845

Place of birth

Scotland

Family details

Second son of John Macmillan of Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Notes

Census records for 1901 indicate Macmillan with his wife and daughter lived in Kensington; in 1911 they were lodgers in Earl’s Court — perhaps a sign of poverty