Maurice Macmillan

The Right Honourable Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden

Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 23 June 1970 – 7 April 1972
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Chancellor	Ian Macleod Anthony Barber
Preceded by	John Diamond, Baron Diamond
Succeeded by	Patrick Jenkin
Personal details
Born	(1921-01-27)27 January 1921
Died	10 March 1984(1984-03-10) (aged 63)
Spouse(s)	Katherine Ormsby-Gore
Children	Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton Joshua Macmillan Julian Macmillan Rachel Macmillan David Macmillan
Parents	Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton Lady Dorothy Cavendish

Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden PC (27 January 1921 – 10 March 1984) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament.

Background and education

Macmillan was the son of Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963, 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 World War II. 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 1949–53. He was elected MP for Halifax at the 1955 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 general election. He served 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 (born 1948–2016^[1])
Hon. Rachel Mary Georgia Macmillan (1955–1987)
Hon. David Maurice Benjamin Macmillan (born 1957)

Macmillan was for a time the owner of Highgrove House, which now belongs to the Prince of Wales. Upon his father's elevation to the peerage on 10 February 1984 as Earl of Stockton, he acquired the courtesy title Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden. He died suddenly in Westminster, London,^[2] on 10 March 1984 following a heart operation, aged 63. His father outlived him by nearly three years, dying in December 1986 at the age of 92;^[3] his son Alexander has held the title 2nd Earl of Stockton since the death of the first Earl.

Styles of address

1921-1955: Mr Maurice Macmillan
1955-1964: Mr Maurice Macmillan MP
1964-1966: Mr Maurice Macmillan
1966-1972: Mr Maurice Macmillan MP
1972-1984: The Right Honourable Maurice Macmillan MP
1984: The Right Honourable Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden MP

References

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Dryden Brook	Member of Parliament for Halifax 1955–1964	Succeeded by Dr Shirley Summerskill
Preceded by Godfrey Nicholson	Member of Parliament for Farnham 1966–1983	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for South West Surrey 1983–1984	Succeeded by Virginia Bottomley
Political offices
Preceded by John Diamond	Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1970–1972	Succeeded by Patrick Jenkin
Preceded by Robert Carr	Secretary of State for Employment 1972–1973	Succeeded by William Whitelaw
Preceded by The Viscount Eccles	Paymaster-General 1973–1974	Succeeded by Edmund Dell

Chief Secretaries to the Treasury

Brooke Boyd-Carpenter Diamond Macmillan Jenkin Boardman Barnett Biffen Brittan Rees MacGregor Major Lamont Mellor Portillo Aitken Waldegrave Darling Byers Milburn Smith Boateng Browne Timms Burnham Cooper Byrne Laws Alexander Hands Gauke

Paymasters General

Parnell Stanley Knatchbull Baring Macaulay Granville Stanley Colchester Stanley Pleydell-Bouverie Lowe Donoughmore Lovaine Wilson Cowper Hutt Goschen Monsell Cave Dufferin Childers Adam Cave Plunket Wolverton Beauchamp Thurlow Beauchamp Brownlow Jersey Windsor Seale-Hayne Hopetoun Marlborough Crossley Causton Ashby Strachie Newton Henderson Compton-Rickett Walters vacant Chamberlain Joynson-Hicks Boyd-Carpenter Gosling vacant Sutherland Onslow Arnold vacant Walters Rochester Hutchison Munster Winterton vacant Cranborne vacant Hankey Jowitt Cherwell vacant Greenwood Marquand Addison Macdonald Cherwell Selkirk vacant Monckton Maulding Mills Brooke Boyd-Carpenter Wigg vacant Shackleton Hart Lever Eccles Macmillan Dell Williams A. Maude Pym Parkinson Gummer Clarke Brooke Caithness Ryder Belstead Cope Heathcoat-Amory Willetts Bates Robinson Primarolo Jowell F. Maude Hancock

Heath Cabinet

Anthony Barber Tom Boardman Gordon Campbell Robert Carr Lord Carrington John Davies Sir Alec Douglas-Home Ian Gilmour Edward Heath Lord Hailsham Sir Geoffrey Howe Earl Jellicoe Patrick Jenkin Sir Keith Joseph Iain Macleod Maurice Macmillan Reginald Maudling Michael Noble John Peyton James Prior Francis Pym Geoffrey Rippon Margaret Thatcher Peter Thomas Peter Walker Lord Windlesham William Whitelaw

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