Maurice Macmillan

Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden PC (27 January 1921–10 March 1984) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament. He was the son of Harold Macmillan (who was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963) and the former Lady Dorothy Cavendish, daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire.

Macmillan was educated at Eton College 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.

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 at a 1966 by-election. 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.

Macmillan married The Honourable Katharine Ormsby-Gore, a daughter of the 4th Baron Harlech, on 22 August 1942. They had four sons and a daughter:

The Hon. Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, later styled Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, later 2nd Earl of Stockton (born 10 October 1943)
The Hon. Joshua Edward Andrew Macmillan (1945-1965)
The Hon. Adam Julian Robert Macmillan (born 1948)
The Hon. Rachel Mary Georgia Macmillan (1955-1987)
The Hon. David Maurice Benjamin Macmillan (born 1957)

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 on 10 March 1984 following a heart operation, aged 63. His son, Alexander, succeeded as 2nd Earl of Stockton on the death of the 1st Earl. He was for a time the owner of Highgrove.

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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	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by (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 Leonard 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