British politician (born 1943)
Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born 10 October 1943), styled asViscount Macmillan of Ovenden between 1984 and 1986, is a BritishConservative Party politician andhereditary peer .[ 1] [ 2]
Early life and education [ edit ] Stockton was born in 1943 inOswestry ,Shropshire , the eldest son ofConservative politicianMaurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden , and his wifethe Hon. Katharine Ormsby-Gore , daughter ofWilliam Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech . His paternal grandfather was prime ministerHarold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton .[ 3]
Stockton was educated atEton College , theUniversity of Paris and atStrathclyde University .[ 4]
Stockton's grandfather,Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton , who had served asPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963, unexpectedly accepted a peerage in February 1984, at the age of ninety. His sonMaurice Macmillan died three weeks later, making Stockton the heir to the new earldom, and he succeeded as a member of theHouse of Lords on his grandfather's death at the end of 1986.[ 5] [ 6] House of Lords Act 1999 . Having been beaten atBristol in1994 , he went on to be elected as aConservative member of theEuropean Parliament forSouth West England from1999 to2004 .
Stockton has been an unsuccessful candidate sixteen times in theby-elections held among hereditary peers for a seat in the House of Lords, as of 2019. Most notably, in 2007 he came third in a contest to replaceLord Mowbray , behind the winner,Lord Cathcart , andLord Younger of Leckie ; in the 2010 by-election to replaceLord Northesk , he came second behindLord Younger of Leckie ; in 2011 he lost toLord Hanworth in a ballot for the seat of the deceasedLord Strabolgi ; and in 2014 he lost out to theEarl of Oxford and Asquith .[ 7]
At theMay 2011 local council elections , Stockton was elected as a Conservative councillor ofSouth Bucks district council[ 8] 2015 local elections .[ 9] [ 10]
Both his fatherMaurice Macmillan (1921–1984) and his grandfather preceded him as chairmen ofMacmillan Publishers Ltd. , the publishing house long owned by the family. Stockton sold it to the GermanHoltzbrinck group . He ranked 253rd in theSunday Times 2004Rich List [ 11]
Stockton renovatedHayne Manor with his second wife inDevon and listed it for sale.[ 12] [ 13]
On 29 April 2002, Stockton appeared alongside several other relatives of deceased former prime ministers, as well as then-prime ministerTony Blair and the four surviving former prime ministers at the time (Edward Heath ,James Callaghan ,Margaret Thatcher andJohn Major ), for a dinner atBuckingham Palace which formed part of the celebrations for theGolden Jubilee of Elizabeth II .[ 14]
Stockton is vice president of theRoyal Crescent Society, Bath.
Stockton married Hélène Birgitte Hamilton in 1970; they divorced 1991. There were three children from this marriage:
On 23 December 1995, Stockton marriedMiranda Quarry (1947–2020), who had been the third wife of actorPeter Sellers . Stockton and Quarry were divorced 2011. This union produced no children.
Stockton lives inDenham, Buckinghamshire . In August 2022, Stockton was banned from driving for 13 months after pleading guilty to a drink driving charge. After driving home from an event on 31 July, where he had drunk some wine, he swerved hisRange Rover into parked cars, causing minor damage to the vehicles. He was fined £7,616, and told to pay costs of £2,085. The large fine was given due to his high income.[ 16]
Coat of arms of Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton Crest Upon a helm with a wreath or azure and sable within sprigs of oak fructed or a dexter cubit arm and a sinister arm embowed both proper the dexter hand gauntletted or and with the other brandishing a two handed sword proper hilt pommel and quillons sable. Escutcheon Argent a chief or overall between three open books proper edged or and bound azure those in chief inscribed respectively in letters sable ` Miseres’ and ` Discere’ and that in base also in letters sable inscribed ` Succo’ and as many mullets azure a lion rampant sable. Supporters Dexter , a lion rampant gules;Sinister , an American bald headed eagle proper the compartment comprising a crenelated wall proper in the portal thereof an anchor azure and joined on either side by two bars wavy azure to a grassy mount growing from that on the dexter a long branch and from that on the sinister a thistle both proper.[ 17]
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Kingdom of Ireland Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Waterford John Boyle, 15th Earl of Cork William Anthony Nugent, 13th Earl of Westmeath John Brabazon, 15th Earl of Meath Alexander Feilding, 11th Earl of Desmond Roger Lambart, 13th Earl of Cavan John Boyle, 15th Earl of Orrery Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda Peter Forbes, 10th Earl of Granard Ivo Bligh, 12th Earl of Darnley Myles Ponsonby, 12th Earl of Bessborough Thomas Butler, 11th Earl of Carrick Henry Boyle, 10th Earl of Shannon Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran Patrick Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown John Savile, 8th Earl of Mexborough David Turnour, 8th Earl Winterton Robert King-Tenison, 12th Earl of Kingston Robert Jocelyn, 10th Earl of Roden David Vaughan, 9th Earl of Lisburne Patrick Meade, 8th Earl of Clanwilliam Randal McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford George Dawson-Damer, 7th Earl of Portarlington Charles Bourke, 11th Earl of Mayo Michael Annesley, 12th Earl Annesley Andrew Cole, 7th Earl of Enniskillen John Crichton, 7th Earl Erne George Bingham, 8th Earl of Lucan John Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore Andrew Stuart, 9th Earl Castle Stewart Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon John Hely-Hutchinson, 9th Earl of Donoughmore After 1801
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King George III Peter St Clair-Erskine, 7th Earl of Rosslyn Benjamin Craven, 9th Earl of Craven Rupert Onslow, 8th Earl of Onslow Julian Marsham, 8th Earl of Romney John Pelham, 9th Earl of Chichester Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton John Herbert, 8th Earl of Powis Simon Nelson, 10th Earl Nelson Alexander Grey, 8th Earl Grey William Lowther, 9th Earl of Lonsdale Conroy Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby Prince Regent King George IV King William IV Queen Victoria Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester Anthony Noel, 6th Earl of Gainsborough William Byng, 9th Earl of Strafford Mark Pepys, 9th Earl of Cottenham Graham Wellesley, 8th Earl Cowley David Ward, 5th Earl of Dudley Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Winton John Russell, 7th Earl Russell John Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Cromartie John Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley Richard Wortley, 5th Earl of Wharncliffe Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton William Palmer, 5th Earl of Selborne John Northcote, 5th Earl of Iddesleigh Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook King Edward VII King George V Harry Primrose, 4th Earl of Midlothian Michael Hicks Beach, 3rd Earl St Aldwyn David Beatty, 3rd Earl Beatty Alexander Haig, 3rd Earl Haig Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh Roderick Balfour, 5th Earl of Balfour Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith Patrick Jellicoe, 3rd Earl Jellicoe Peter Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel King George VI Queen Elizabeth II
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