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    Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who...
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  • Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, grandson of co-founder Daniel, was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986. Since 1999, Macmillan has...
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  • secondary title of Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden as a courtesy title. He is a great-grandson of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton. He...
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    Uganda and Kenya. On 25 September 1956, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan met informally with President Eisenhower at the White House; he misread...
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    the wake of the Suez Crisis, and his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Harold Macmillan succeeded him as Prime Minister on 10 January. He brought the economic...
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    Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 February 1984 for Harold Macmillan, the former Conservative prime minister (from 1957 to 1963), less than...
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    Devonshire, and Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. She was married to Harold Macmillan from 1920 until her death. She spent her first eight years at Holker...
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    eldest son of the Conservative politician Maurice Macmillan and grandson of prime minister Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton. Born in Oswestry, Shropshire...
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    of Anderson's First Army, to organise the coup de grace. However, Harold Macmillan (British Minister Resident in the Mediterranean from 1942 to 1945)...
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    Alec Douglas-Home (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964)
    Lords. Under the premierships of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan he was appointed to a series of increasingly senior posts, including...
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    in July 1951 but was publicly exonerated by then-Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in 1955. He resumed his career as both a journalist and a spy for MI6...
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  • son of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Macmillan was the only son of Harold Macmillan...
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  • American company from its parent company in Britain, George Brett Jr. and Harold Macmillan remained close personal friends. George P. Brett Jr. made the following...
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  • Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan, New York: Random House, 2010 page 220 Thorpe, D.R. Supermac The Life of Harold Macmillan, New York: Random House...
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  • Profumo affair that rocked the government of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. It stars Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler and John Hurt as Stephen...
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    the first Macmillan ministry, second Macmillan ministry, and then the Douglas-Home ministry. They were respectively led by Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec...
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  • majorities. Conservative Prime Ministers Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home promoted relatively liberal trade regulations...
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  • Macmillan ministry may refer to: First Macmillan ministry, the British majority government led by Harold Macmillan from 1957 to 1959 Second Macmillan...
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    last non-royal earldom, Earl of Stockton, was created in 1984 for Harold Macmillan, prime minister from 1957 to 1963. Alternative names for the rank equivalent...
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  • for former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who was created Earl of Stockton with the subsidiary title of Viscount Macmillan. The hereditary peerage, as...
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  • The Crown (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Harold Macmillan)
    1964, including the Suez Crisis, the resignations of Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan as prime minister, the Profumo affair, and the births of Prince Andrew...
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    Lambert Tree The Duke's sister Dorothy was married to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Duke's younger brother Charles was married to dancer Adele Astaire...
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    Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Thomas More in Wolf Hall, Harold Macmillan in The Crown, Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom, Chief Superintendent...
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  • Crisis in 1956, the retirement of the Queen's third Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963, following the Profumo affair political scandal, and the births...
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    1956 the Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan met informally with Eisenhower at the White House. Macmillan misread Eisenhower's determination to...
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  • Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss have yet to receive a peerage. Harold Macmillan declined a peerage on leaving office, but over 20 years after retiring...
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  • of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton. On 22 August 1942, she married Conservative politician Maurice Macmillan, making her the daughter-in-law...
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    discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963. Rice-Davies was born near Llanelli, Wales, and, during her...
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  • ministers: three Conservatives, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, and Edward Heath, and two from the Labour Party, Harold Wilson (who served twice) and...
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    Rab Butler (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964)
    politician; he was effectively Deputy Prime Minister to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, although he only held the official title for a brief period in 1962–63...
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