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Harold Macmillan

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The Right Honourable

The Earl of Stockton

Harold Macmillan in 1959

Official portrait, 1959

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

In office
10 January 1957 –18 October 1963

Monarch

Deputy

Rab Butler(1962–63)

Preceded by

Sir Anthony Eden

Succeeded by

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Leader of the Conservative Party

In office
10 January 1957 –18 October 1963

Preceded by

Sir Anthony Eden

Succeeded by

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Personal details

Born

Maurice Harold Macmillan

(1894-02-10)10 February 1894
Belgravia, London, England

Died

29 December 1986(1986-12-29) (aged 92)
Chelwood Gate, East Sussex, England

Resting place

St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes

Political party

Spouse(s)

Lady Dorothy Cavendish

(m. 1920;died 1966)

Children

4, includingMaurice andCaroline

Balliol College, Oxford

Occupation

Publisher
politician

Civilian awards

Order of Merit (1976)
Peerage (1984)

Military service

Allegiance

United Kingdom

Branch/service

Years of service

1914–1920

Rank

Unit

Grenadier Guards

Battles/wars

First World War
- Battle of Loos
- Battle of the Somme

Military awards

Ministerial offices

Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 20 December 1955 –13 January 1957
Prime Minister	Sir Anthony Eden
Preceded by	Rab Butler
Succeeded by	Peter Thorneycroft
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 7 April 1955 –20 December 1955
Prime Minister	Sir Anthony Eden
Preceded by	Sir Anthony Eden
Succeeded by	Selwyn Lloyd
Minister of Defence
In office 19 October 1954 –7 April 1955
Prime Minister	Sir Winston Churchill
Preceded by	The Earl Alexander of Tunis
Succeeded by	Selwyn Lloyd
Minister of Housing and Local Government
In office 30 October 1951 –19 October 1954
Prime Minister	Sir Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Hugh Dalton
Succeeded by	Duncan Sandys
Secretary of State for Air
In office 25 May 1945 –26 July 1945
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Sir Archibald Sinclair
Succeeded by	The Viscount Stansgate
Minister Resident in Northwest Africa
In office 30 December 1942 –25 May 1945
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	New post
Succeeded by	Harold Balfour
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
In office 4 February 1942 –30 December 1942
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	George Hall
Succeeded by	The Duke of Devonshire
Parliamentary Secretary to theMinistry of Supply
In office 15 May 1940 –4 February 1942
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	John Llewellin
Succeeded by	The Viscount Portal

Parliamentary offices

Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 24 February 1984 –29 December 1986 Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	Earldom created
Succeeded by	The 2nd Earl of Stockton
Member of Parliament forBromley
In office 14 November 1945 –25 September 1964
Preceded by	Sir Edward Campbell
Succeeded by	John Hunt
Member of Parliament forStockton-on-Tees
In office 28 October 1931 –15 June 1945
Preceded by	Frederick Fox Riley
Succeeded by	George Chetwynd
In office 30 October 1924 –10 May 1929
Preceded by	Robert Strother Stewart
Succeeded by	Frederick Fox Riley

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton,OM,PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was aConservative politician. He wasPrime Minister of theUnited Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.

Macmillan was in theGrenadier Guards during theFirst World War. After the war he joined his family publishing company. He entered Parliament at the 1924general election. After losing his seat in 1929, he won it again in 1931.

During World War II, Churchill made Macmillan Minister Resident in theMediterranean. This made him the go-between for Churchill and the British forces inNorth Africa and theMiddle East. The Mediterranean was a major theatre of war, and Macmillan's work made his name as a serious politician.

Macmillan becameForeign Secretary and thenChancellor of the Exchequer under Churchill's successorSir Anthony Eden. When Eden resigned in 1957 after theSuez Crisis, Macmillan succeeded him asPrime Minister andLeader of the Conservative Party.^[1]

Macmillan presided over a country becoming richer, with lowunemployment and high (but uneven) economic growth. In hisBedford speech of July 1957 he told the nation they had 'never had it so good'.^[2]

Macmillan was granted the lasthereditary peerage given to a prime minister when he became the Earl of Stockton and Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden.^[3]

References

[change |change source]

↑Horne, Alistair 2008.Macmillan: The Official Biography. (twentieth anniversary ed) London: Macmillan.ISBN 978-0-230-71083-2
↑Sandbrook, Dominic 2005.Never Had It So Good. London: Little, Brown.ISBN 978-0-349-11530-6
↑"Premiers past: What now for Cameron?". BBC News. Retrieved13 November 2023.

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