Maurice Macmillan
 Maurice Macmillan    (politician, publisher) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 27 January 1921 | |||||||||||
| Died | 10 March 1984 (Age 63) | |||||||||||
Cause of death | heart operation | |||||||||||
| Nationality | UK | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | Eton College, Balliol College (Oxford) | |||||||||||
| Parents | • Harold Macmillan • Lady Dorothy Cavendish | |||||||||||
| Children | • Alexander Macmillan • Joshua Macmillan • Julian Macmillan • Rachel Macmillan • David Macmillan | |||||||||||
| Spouse | Katherine Ormsby-Gore | |||||||||||
| Victim of | premature death | |||||||||||
| Party | Conservatives | |||||||||||
UK MP, Son of UK PM Harold Macmillan, who attended the 1979 Bilderberg. Died suddenly in 1984 after an operation
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Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden was a British politician of the Conservative Party, the son of the future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. He attended the 1979 Bilderberg meeting.
Background
Macmillan was the son of the 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 decades-long Mistress of the Robes of Queen Mary, wife of George V.
Education
After attending Eton College, he studied at Balliol College at the University of Oxford and did his military service during the Second World War with the Sussex Yeomanry. Later he was a member of the staff of the reconnaissance "Phantom Regiment", with which he was deployed in France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany until October 1945. He then held an advisory post in the Ministry of War, and in this capacity traveled Europe, the Middle East and Far East, as well as Southeast Asia. In June 1946 he was discharged with the rank of major.[1]
Career
After the war, he worked at Macmillan Publishers Ltd., the family-owned publishing house, and eventually became its chairman of the board. He has also worked for several news agencies such as the Globe Publishing Company, Monotype Corporation, the Near and Far East News Agency and the Arab News Agency.
Macmillan, who had unsuccessfully stood for a seat in the House of Commons in the 1945 General election in the constituency of Seaham, began his political career in local politics as a member of the council of the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington from 1949 to 1953. He was first elected to the House of Commons as an MP in May 1955, representing the constituency of Halifax until he lost his seat in the general election of 15 October 1964. During the tenure of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, he was Economic Secretary to the Treasury between 1963 and 1964, taking the fifth most important rank in the treasury.[2]
At the general election of 31 March 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 9 June 1983 for the newly created constituency of Surrey South West.[2]
After the Conservative victory in the general election of June 18, 1970, he first became Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then Minister of Employment in the cabinet of Prime Minister Edward Heath from April 1972 to December 1973. After another government reshuffle, he was finally Paymaster General from December 1973 until the end of Heath's term in March 1974.[2]
Since his father was awarded the title Earl of Stockton on February 28, 1984, the last hereditary noble title in the rank of a peer who does not belong to the royal family, Maurice also held the courtesy title Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden as the eldest son and heir apparent. However, since he died almost two weeks later after a heart operation, the title of Earl of Stockton fell to his eldest son Alexander at the death of his father Harold Macmillan.[3]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1979 | 27 April 1979 | 29 April 1979 | Austria Baden Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf | 27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria |
