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(Redirected from Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden) British politician (1921–1984)

The Right HonourableViscount Macmillan of Ovenden
Macmillan in 1957
Ministerial offices
Paymaster General
In office
2 December 1973 – 4 March 1974
Prime MinisterEdward Heath
Preceded byThe Viscount Eccles
Succeeded byEdmund Dell
Secretary of State for Employment
In office
7 April 1972 – 2 December 1973
Prime MinisterEdward Heath
Preceded byRobert Carr
Succeeded byWilliam Whitelaw
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
23 June 1970 – 7 April 1972
Prime MinisterEdward Heath
Preceded byJack Diamond
Succeeded byPatrick Jenkin
Member of Parliament
for South West Surrey
In office
9 June 1983 – 10 March 1984
Preceded bynew constituency
Succeeded byVirginia Bottomley
Member of Parliament
for Farnham
In office
31 March 1966 – 13 May 1983
Preceded byGodfrey Nicholson
Succeeded byconstituency abolished
Member of Parliament
for Halifax
In office
26 May 1955 – 25 September 1964
Preceded byDryden Brook
Succeeded byShirley Summerskill
Personal details
Born(1921-01-27)27 January 1921
Westminster, London, England
Died10 March 1984(1984-03-10) (aged 63)
Westminster, London, England
Spouse Katherine Ormsby-Gore ​ ​(m. 1942)​
Children
Parents
EducationEton College
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford

Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, PC (27 January 1921 – 10 March 1984), was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament. He was the only son of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.

Background and education

Macmillan was the only son of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, and Lady Dorothy Cavendish, daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He served with the Sussex Yeomanry in Europe in the Second World War. Like his father, he was chairman of Macmillan Publishers, as well as a director of two news agencies.

Political career

Macmillan contested Seaham at the 1945 election, Lincoln in 1951 and Wakefield at a 1954 by-election. He served on Kensington Borough Council from 1949 to 1953, then was elected MP for Halifax at the 1955 general election but lost this seat in 1964. He was then elected for Farnham in 1966. This latter seat became South West Surrey at the 1983 election. He served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury (1963–64) under Alec Douglas-Home, and as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1970–72), Secretary of State for Employment (1972–73) and Paymaster General (1973–74) under Edward Heath. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1972.

Family

Macmillan married the Honourable Katharine Ormsby-Gore, daughter of William 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)
  • Hon. Joshua Edward Andrew Macmillan (1945–1965)
  • Hon. Adam Julian Robert Macmillan (1948–2016)
  • Hon. Rachel Mary Georgia Macmillan (1955–1987)
  • Hon. David Maurice Benjamin Macmillan (born 1957); married English fashion designer Arabella Pollen in 1995 and has issue.

Macmillan was for a time the owner of Highgrove House, which he sold to the Prince of Wales in 1980. Upon his father's elevation to the peerage as Earl of Stockton on 24 February 1984, Macmillan acquired the courtesy title Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden. He held the title for just 16 days, dying in Westminster, London, on 10 March 1984, following a heart operation. He was 63. His father outlived him by almost three years, dying in December 1986 at the age of 92.

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

Arms

Coat of arms of Maurice Macmillan
Crest
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.

References

  1. "Adam Macmillan Obituary (2016) – London, City of London – the Times". Legacy.com.
  2. "Rachel Macmillan Died After Mugging, Her Brother Says". AP News. 24 April 1987. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  3. "No. 49660". The London Gazette. 29 February 1984. p. 2951.
  4. "1986: Harold Macmillan dies". Retrieved 7 July 2021.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byDryden Brook Member of Parliament for Halifax
1955–1964 		Succeeded byDr Shirley Summerskill
Preceded byGodfrey Nicholson Member of Parliament for Farnham
1966–1983 		Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for South West Surrey
1983–1984 		Succeeded byVirginia Bottomley
Political offices
Preceded byJohn Diamond Chief Secretary to the Treasury
1970–1972 		Succeeded byPatrick Jenkin
Preceded byRobert Carr Secretary of State for Employment
1972–1973 		Succeeded byWilliam Whitelaw
Preceded byThe Viscount Eccles Paymaster General
1973–1974 		Succeeded byEdmund Dell
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