Margaret MacMillan, CC | |
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Margaret MacMillan at IHR Creighton Lecture 2015 University of London
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Born |
Margaret Olwen MacMillan 23 December 1943 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Alma mater |
Oxford University (DPhil) University of Toronto (BA) |
Occupation | Academic, historian |
Notable work | Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War |
Awards | Companion of the Order of Canada |
Margaret Olwen MacMillan, CC (born 23 December 1943) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University. A leading expert on history and international relations, MacMillan is a commentator in the media. She is a great-granddaughter of former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
Margaret MacMillan was born to Dr. Robert MacMillan and Eluned Carey Evans. Her maternal grandfather was Maj. Sir Thomas J. Carey Evans, Kt., M.C., F.E.C.S., of the Indian Medical Service. The senior Evans served as personal physician to Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading during the latter's term as Viceroy of India (1921–26). Her maternal grandmother, Olwen Elizabeth, Lady Carey Evans, DBE, was a daughter of David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and his first wife, Dame Margaret Lloyd George.
MacMillan's sister Ann was the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)'s London correspondent for almost forty years, retiring in 2013, and is married to the British journalist Peter Snow, making Margaret the aunt of their son Dan Snow.