Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament.
11 Facts About Maurice Macmillan
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Maurice Macmillan was the only son of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
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Maurice Macmillan was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
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Maurice Macmillan served with the Sussex Yeomanry in Europe in the Second World War.
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Maurice Macmillan contested Seaham at the 1945 election, Lincoln in 1951 and Wakefield at a 1954 by-election.
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Maurice Macmillan served on Kensington Borough Council from 1949 to 1953, then was elected MP for Halifax at the 1955 general election but lost this seat in 1964.
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Maurice Macmillan served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury under Alec Douglas-Home, and as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Employment and Paymaster General under Edward Heath.
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Maurice Macmillan married the Honourable Katharine Ormsby-Gore, daughter of William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech, on 22 August 1942.
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Maurice Macmillan was for a time the owner of Highgrove House, which he sold to the Prince of Wales in 1980.
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Maurice Macmillan held the title for just 30 days, dying in Westminster, London, on 10 March 1984, following a heart operation.
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Maurice Macmillan's father outlived him by almost three years, dying in December 1986 at the age of 92.