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The Right Honourable

The Earl of Stockton

OM PC FRS
The Right Honourable; The Earl of Stockton; OM PC FRS
	Official portrait, 1959
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
	In office; 10 January 1957 – 18 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
Personal details
Born	Maurice Harold Macmillan; 10 February 1894; Belgravia, London, England
Died	29 December 1986 (aged 92); Chelwood Gate, East Sussex, England
Resting place	St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Lady Dorothy Cavendish (m. 1920; died 1966)
Children	4, including Maurice and Caroline
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Occupation	Publisher; politician;
Civilian awards	Order of Merit (1976); Peerage (1984);
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch/service	British Army
Years of service	1914–1920
Rank	Captain
Unit	Grenadier Guards
Battles/wars	First World War Battle of Loos; Battle of the Somme; ;
Military awards	Victory Medal; British War Medal;
Prime Minister
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 the Ministry of Supply
	In office; 15 May 1940 – 4 February 1942
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	John Llewellin
Succeeded by	The Viscount Portal
Preceded by
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; for Bromley
	In office; 14 November 1945 – 25 September 1964
Preceded by	Sir Edward Campbell
Succeeded by	John Hunt
Member of Parliament; for Stockton-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 a Conservative politician. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.

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

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

Macmillan became Foreign Secretary and then 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 and Leader of the Conservative Party.^[1]

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

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

References

↑ 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. Retrieved 13 November 2023.