Short answers, pulled from the story.
Daniel and Alexander Macmillan opened their doors in London during 1843. The two brothers arrived from the Isle of Arran in Scotland to build a business that would outlast them.
Macmillan published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on the 26th of November 1865 following the pivotal meeting with Lewis Carroll. This encounter led directly to the publication of this famous children's book.
Harold Macmillan served as chairman of the company until his own passing in December 1986. He retired from politics in 1964 and held the chairmanship for over two decades before handing it to his son Maurice Macmillan.
Macmillan became the sole owner of Pan Books during 1986. By 1990, Pan merged with the trade division of Macmillan to form Pan Macmillan under the ownership of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group by 1999.
Amazon chose the agency model preferred by Macmillan on the 31st of January 2010. The United States Department of Justice filed United States v. Apple Inc. in April 2012 naming Apple, Macmillan, and four other major publishers as defendants.