McCoy, Nathaniel P
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK art publisher and author George Grandison Millar (circa 1860-1913), whose The Gold Makers (1911) is a thriller involving the Transmutation of metals. In real life Millar was a shareholder of the Scottish metallurgical company Kosmoid Ltd [see links below], established in 1904, which planned to produce mercury and perhaps gold by transmutation of lead; The Gold Makers is seemingly a roman à clef transplantation of Kosmoid's tangled affairs from Scotland to Boston, Massachusetts. [JC/MA/DRL]
George Grandison Millar
born circa 1860
died Rothesay, Scotland: 24 June 1913
works
- The Gold Makers (London: F V White and Co, 1911) [hb/]
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