Maurice Macmillan

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Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden , PC (* 27. January 1921 , † 10. March 1984 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

Macmillan was the son of future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his wife Dorothy Evelyn Cavendish, a daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire , a future Governor General of Canada , and his wife Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire , the decade-long Mistress of the Robes of Queen Mary .

After visiting the Eton College , he studied at Balliol College of Oxford University and did during the Second World War, his military service with the Sussex Yeomanry, a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army , and was founded in 1946 with the rank of there captain dismissed.

After the war he was with Macmillan Publishers Ltd. at the family-owned publisher , and eventually became its chairman. He has also worked for several news agencies such as the Globe Publishing Company, the Monotype Corporation, the Near and Far East News Agency and the Arab News Agency.

Macmillan, who had run unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in the constituency elections in 1945 in Seaham , began his political career in local politics from 1949 to 1953 as a member of the council of the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington . After he ran again unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in the constituency of Lincoln in 1951 and a by-election in the constituency of Wakefield in 1954 , he was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the general election of May 26, 1955 as a member of the House of Commons and represented in this initially up to his loss of office in the general election of October 15, 1964 the constituency of Halifax . During the tenure of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home , he was Economic Secretary to the Treasury between 1963 and 1964 , making him the fifth most important position in the Treasury.

In the general election of March 31, 1966 , he was again elected as a member of the House of Commons and belonged to it until his death, first for the constituency of Farnham and then after its dissolution since the general election of June 9, 1983 for the newly created constituency of Surrey South west .

After the Conservatives won the general election on June 18, 1970 , he was first Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then from April 1972 to December 1973 Minister for Employment in Prime Minister Edward Heath's Cabinet . After another government reshuffle, he was finally from December 1973 until the end of Heath's tenure in March 1974 Paymaster General .

Since his father was bestowed on February 28, 1984 with the title Earl of Stockton, the last hereditary title of nobility in the rank of a peer who does not belong to the royal family, he has held the courtesy title Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden as the eldest son and Heir Apparent . However, since he died almost two weeks later after heart surgery, the title of Earl of Stockton fell to his eldest son Alexander on the death of his father Harold Macmillan .

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  1. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: PROFESSIONAL MATTERS: MAURICE MACMILLAN (No. 13/1966)
personal data
SURNAME Macmillan, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Macmillan, Maurice, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1921
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1984