Millar, Andrew

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Dates c.1727-68
Location London
Vocation Bookseller
Place of Birth Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire
Marriage Jane Johnston
Issue
Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Apprenticed to the bookseller James McEuen. By 1727 was working in the London branch in the Strand. Millar became free of the Stationers' Company by redemption on 5 December 1738, though his freedom of London was delayed until 1744. Vendor for Society for the Encouragement of Learning (1739–49), as well as a London vendor for two Scottish presses. Children did not survive infancy or childhood. Millar died at his home, 25 Pall Mall in 1768.