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Harold MacMillan

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Stockton
OM PC FRS
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office
10 January 1957 – 19 October 1963
Monarch Elizabeth II
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
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

Member of Parliament
for Bromley
In office
14 November 1945 – 16 October 1964
Preceded by Sir Edward Campbell
Succeeded by John Hunt
Member of Parliament
for
In office
28 October 1931 – 6 July 1945
Preceded by Frederick Fox Riley
Succeeded by George Chetwynd
In office
30 October 1924 – 31 May 1929
Preceded by Robert Strother Stewart
Succeeded by Frederick Fox Riley
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
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Lady Dorothy Cavendish (m. 1920; d. 1966)
Children Maurice Macmillan
Caroline Faber
Catherine Amery
Sarah Heath
Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford
Profession Publisher
Religion Anglican
Civilian awards Order of Merit
Peerage
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch Flag of the British Army.svg British Army
Years of service 1914–1920
Rank British Army OF-2.svg Captain
Unit Grenadier Guards
Battles/wars First World War
Military awards Allied Victory Medal BAR.svg Victory Medal
British War Medal BAR.svg British War Medal

Selwyn Lloyd

Viscount Portal

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 19 October 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac," he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability.

Macmillan served in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He was wounded three times, most severely in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He spent the rest of the war in a military hospital unable to walk, and suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life. After the war Macmillan joined his family business, then entered Parliament in the 1924 General Election, for the northern industrial constituency of . After losing his seat in 1929, he regained it in 1931, soon after which he spoke out against the high rate of unemployment in Stockton-On-Tees, and against appeasement.

Rising to high office during the Second World War as a protégé of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Macmillan then served as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Churchill's successor Sir Anthony Eden. When Eden resigned in 1957 after the Suez Crisis, Macmillan succeeded him as Prime Minister.


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