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Macmillan Coffee Morning (formerly World's Biggest Coffee Morning) is an annual fundraising event run by Macmillan Cancer Support where people across the UK host and attend Coffee Mornings in aid of Macmillan. Since 1990 it has raised over £310 million for Macmillan. [1]
The charity was founded 1911 [4] as the Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, by Douglas Macmillan following the death of his father from the disease. In 1924, the name was changed to the National Society for Cancer Relief, which it retained until 1989 when it was changed to Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund, later changed again to Macmillan Cancer Relief.
Douglas Macmillan was born on 10 August 1884, in Castle Cary, Somerset, the seventh of eight children of William Macmillan (1844–1911) and his wife Emily, formerly White (1843–1937). His father became managing director of John Boyd & Co. (manufacturers of horsehair-based products), was a Somerset County Alderman, and for 15 years edited and ...
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The Mighty Hunter is a 1943 picture book by Berta and Elmer Hader. The story is about a Native American boy who wants to go hunting. The story is about a Native American boy who wants to go hunting. The book was a recipient of a 1944 Caldecott Honor for its illustrations.
Macmillan made occasional political interventions in retirement. Responding to a remark made by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson about not having boots in which to go to school, Macmillan retorted: 'If Mr Wilson did not have boots to go to school that is because he was too big for them.' [246] Macmillan accepted the Order of Merit in 1976. [247]
McCune has funded schools in the developing world, [8] and made contributions to California organizations and educational establishments, including $2.5 million to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, [9] $3.5 million to found the SAGE Center For the Study of the Mind at UCSB, [10] [11] and over $5 million to the Granada Theater Restoration Project. [12]
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) .