1. Margaret MacMillan is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto, and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University.
24 Facts About Margaret MacMillan
1. 2.
Margaret MacMillan was the 2018 Reith lecturer, giving five lectures across the globe on the theme of war under the title The Mark of Cain, the tour taking in London, York, Beirut, Belfast, and Ottawa.
3.
Margaret MacMillan was born to Dr Robert Laidlaw MacMillan and Eiluned Carey Evans on 23 December 1943.
4.
Margaret MacMillan's maternal grandmother, Lady Olwen Carey Evans, was a daughter of David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his first wife, Dame Margaret Lloyd George.
5.
Margaret MacMillan received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Toronto, where she attended Trinity College.
6.
Margaret MacMillan holds a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in politics from St Hilda's College, Oxford, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from St Antony's College, Oxford.
7.
Margaret MacMillan was Provost of Trinity College, Toronto from 2002 to 2007.
8.
Margaret MacMillan is the author of Women of the Raj.
9.
From 1995 to 2003, Margaret MacMillan co-edited the International Journal, published by the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
10.
Margaret MacMillan previously served as a member of the National Board of Directors of the CIIA, now the Canadian International Council, and currently sits on the International Journal's Editorial Board.
11.
Margaret MacMillan was the Young Memorial Visitor at Royal Military College of Canada in 2004 and delivered the JD Young Memorial Lecture on 24 November 2004.
12.
Margaret MacMillan's research has focused on the British Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and on international relations in the 20th century.
13.
Margaret MacMillan is a member of the European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press.
14.
Margaret MacMillan has served on the boards of the Canadian Institute for International Affairs, the Atlantic Council of Canada, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Historica and the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy.
15.
Margaret MacMillan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto.
16.
Margaret MacMillan has honorary degrees from the University of King's College, the Royal Military College of Canada and Ryerson University, Toronto.
17.
Margaret MacMillan was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in February 2006 and promoted to a Companion, the highest grade of the order, on 30 December 2015.
18.
Margaret MacMillan represented the order at the coronation of Charles III, King of Canada, and Queen Camilla on 6 May 2023.
19.
Margaret MacMillan was chosen by Queen Elizabeth II and made a member of the Order of Merit by King Charles III in 2022.
20.
In May 2019, Margaret MacMillan received an honorary degree from the American University of Paris.
21.
In May 2020, Margaret MacMillan was admitted as an Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
22.
Margaret MacMillan often appears in the popular and literary press, with a focus on events surrounding the First World War.
23.
Margaret MacMillan perceived similar tensions then with the Syrian civil war and the events in Sarajevo.
24.
Margaret MacMillan has written several op-eds for The New York Times.