• Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, PC (27 January 1921 – 10 March 1984), was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of...
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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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  • Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the...
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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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    grandfather's death (namely Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton, son of Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, only son of the first earl...
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  • Daniel Maurice Alan Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (born 9 October 1974) is a British fashion designer and the only son of Alexander Macmillan, 2nd...
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  • Andrew Macmillan (1945–1965) 3) Adam Julian Robert Macmillan (1948–2016) 4) Rachel Mary Georgia Macmillan (1955–1987) 5) David Maurice Benjamin Macmillan (born...
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    outlived her by 20 years. She and Harold had four children: Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (1921–1984), Conservative politician and publisher...
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    families until it was purchased in 1980 by the Duchy of Cornwall from Maurice Macmillan. Charles III remodelled the Georgian house with neo-classical additions...
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  • Frederick Denison Maurice was a prolific contributor. Parry, Ann (1986). "The Grove Tears 1868-1883: A "New Look" for "Macmillan's Magazine"?". Victorian...
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    (filling the seat left vacant by the death of Maurice Macmillan, son of former prime minister Harold Macmillan), as the Member for South West Surrey, was...
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    Edward Heath (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964)
    Whitelaw succeeds Maurice Macmillan as Secretary for Employment. Francis Pym succeeds Whitelaw as Secretary for Northern Ireland. Macmillan becomes Paymaster-General...
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    Birch Grove (category Harold Macmillan)
    entrepreneur James Hay. Birch Grove is a Grade II listed building. Maurice Macmillan and his wife Helen (known as Nellie) bought the estate, a large house...
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    Whitelaw succeeds Maurice Macmillan as Secretary for Employment. Francis Pym succeeds Whitelaw as Secretary for Northern Ireland. Macmillan becomes Paymaster-General...
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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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  • Magazine as editorial director, along with William Rees-Davies and Maurice Macmillan. While at Topic, Elwes discovered and hired a then unknown art student...
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    Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is an English retired actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared...
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  • Following the death of Maurice Macmillan in 1984, son of the former British Prime Minister and MP for Surrey South West Harold Macmillan, Gavin Scott was selected...
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    Alec Douglas-Home (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964)
    Under the premierships of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan he was appointed to a series of increasingly senior posts, including Leader...
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  • William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964)
    government posts under Harold Macmillan as a Lord of the Treasury (government whip) between 1961 and 1962 and then under Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home...
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    as Conservative leader and Prime Minister in the autumn after Harold Macmillan announced his resignation in the wake of the Profumo affair. Douglas-Home...
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    Election Member Party 1983 Maurice Macmillan Conservative 1984 by-election Virginia Bottomley Conservative 2005 Jeremy Hunt Conservative...
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    Londonderry Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long Harold Macmillan Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden John Major Theresa May Percy Mills, 1st...
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    Julian Amery (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964)
    Amery and Maurice Macmillan proved effective leaders of the anti-devolution Tory camp."[citation needed] Although he was Harold Macmillan's son-in-law...
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  • April 1972 – 8 January 1974 Prime Minister Edward Heath Preceded by Maurice Macmillan Succeeded by Tom Boardman Financial Secretary to the Treasury In office...
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  • Anthony Barber (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964)
    as MP for Doncaster in 1951, Barber served in government under Harold Macmillan as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
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    and Maurice Crawford Macmillan (1853–1936). Maurice married Helen (Nellie) Artie Tarleton Belles (1856–1937), and their son Maurice Harold Macmillan became...
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    Robert Carr (category Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964)
    Secretary of State for Employment In office 20 June 1970 – 7 April 1972 Prime Minister Edward Heath Preceded by Barbara Castle Succeeded by Maurice Macmillan...
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  • Minister Robert Carr 20 June 1970 7 April 1972 Conservative Edward Heath Maurice Macmillan 7 April 1972 2 December 1973 Conservative William Whitelaw 2 December...
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  • Parliament for Halifax In office 15 October 1964 – 8 June 1983 Preceded by Maurice Macmillan Succeeded by Roy Galley Personal details Born Shirley Catherine Wynne...
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