Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden PC
Macmillan in 1957
Ministerial offices Paymaster General In office 2 December 1973 – 4 March 1974 Prime Minister Edward Heath Preceded by The Viscount Eccles Succeeded by Edmund Dell Secretary of State for Employment In office 7 April 1972 – 2 December 1973 Prime Minister Edward Heath Preceded by Robert Carr Succeeded by William Whitelaw Chief Secretary to the Treasury In office 23 June 1970 – 7 April 1972 Prime Minister Edward Heath Preceded by Jack Diamond Succeeded by Patrick Jenkin
Member of Parliament forSouth West Surrey
In office 9 June 1983 – 10 March 1984
Preceded by	new constituency
Succeeded by	Virginia Bottomley
Member of Parliament forFarnham
In office 31 March 1966 – 13 May 1983
Preceded by	Godfrey Nicholson
Succeeded by	constituency abolished
Member of Parliament forHalifax
In office 26 May 1955 – 25 September 1964
Preceded by	Dryden Brook
Succeeded by	Shirley Summerskill
Personal details
Born	(1921-01-27)27 January 1921 Westminster,London, England
Died	10 March 1984(1984-03-10) (aged 63) Westminster, London, England
Spouse	Katherine Ormsby-Gore ​ ​ (m. 1942)​
Children	5, including: Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton
Parents	Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton Lady Dorothy Cavendish
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden,PC (27 January 1921 – 10 March 1984), was a BritishConservative Partypolitician andMember of Parliament. He was the only son ofHarold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who wasPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.

Macmillan was the only son ofHarold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, andLady Dorothy Cavendish, daughter ofVictor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire. He was educated atEton andBalliol College, Oxford. He served with theSussex Yeomanry in Europe in theSecond World War. Like his father, he was chairman ofMacmillan Publishers, as well as a director of two news agencies.

Macmillan contestedSeaham at the1945 election,Lincoln in1951 andWakefield ata 1954 by-election. He served onKensington Borough Council from 1949 to 1953, then was elected MP forHalifax at the1955 general election but lost this seat in1964. He was then elected forFarnham in1966. This latter seat becameSouth West Surrey at the1983 election. He served asEconomic Secretary to the Treasury (1963–64) underAlec Douglas-Home, and asChief Secretary to the Treasury (1970–72),Secretary of State for Employment (1972–73) andPaymaster General (1973–74) underEdward Heath. He was made aPrivy Counsellor in 1972.

Macmillan married the HonourableKatharine Ormsby-Gore, daughter ofWilliam Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech, on 22 August 1942. They had four sons and a daughter:

• Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born 10 October 1943)
• Joshua Edward Andrew Macmillan (1945–1965)
• Hon. Adam Julian Robert Macmillan (1948–2016)^[1]
• Hon. Rachel Mary Georgia Macmillan (1955–1987)^[2]
• Hon. David Maurice Benjamin Macmillan (born 1957); married English fashion designerArabella Pollen in 1995 and has issue.

Macmillan was for a time the owner ofHighgrove House, which he sold to thePrince of Wales in 1980. Upon his father's elevation to the peerage asEarl of Stockton on 24 February 1984,^[3] Macmillan acquired thecourtesy title Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden. He held the title for just 16 days, because he died on 10 March 1984, inWestminster, London, following a heart operation. He was 63. His father outlived him by almost three years, dying in December 1986 at the age of 92.^[4]

Macmillan's sonAlexander has held the title 2nd Earl of Stockton since the death of the first Earl.

Coat of arms of Maurice Macmillan

Crest [Upon a helm with a wreath Azure and Sable] within sprigs of oak fructed Or a dexter cubit Arm and a sinister Arm embowed both proper the dexter hand gauntleted 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.

• Hansard 1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden

• 1921 births
• 1984 deaths
• British Army personnel of World War II
• Sussex Yeomanry officers
• Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
• British secretaries of state for employment
• Children of prime ministers of the United Kingdom
• Members of Kensington Metropolitan Borough Council
• British courtesy viscounts
• Heirs apparent who never acceded
• Macmillan family
• Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
• People educated at Eton College
• Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
• UK MPs 1955–1959
• UK MPs 1959–1964
• UK MPs 1966–1970
• UK MPs 1970–1974
• UK MPs 1974
• UK MPs 1974–1979
• UK MPs 1979–1983
• UK MPs 1983–1987
• Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964
• Chief secretaries to the Treasury

• Subscription required using via
• Pages containing links to subscription-only content
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Use dmy dates from August 2016
• Use British English from August 2016
• All Wikipedia articles written in British English