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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Caricatured as "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit
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Macmillan was born on 10 February 1894, at 52 Cadogan Place in Chelsea, London, to Maurice Crawford Macmillan (1853–1936), a publisher, and his wife, the former Helen (Nellie) Artie...
See moreMember of Parliament (1924–1929)
Macmillan contested the depressed northern industrial constituency of Stockton-on-Tees...
See moreFirst government, 1957–1959
From the start of his premiership, Macmillan set out to portray an image of calm and style, in contrast...
See moreMacmillan initially refused a peerage and retired from politics in September 1964, a month before the 1964 election, which the Conservatives narrowly lost to Labour, now led by
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See moreAccording to Michael Bloch, there have long been rumours that Macmillan was expelled from Eton for homosexuality. Macmillan's biographer, D.
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See moreHousing Minister (1951–1954)
With the Conservative victory in 1951 Macmillan became Minister of Housing & Local Government under...
See moreMacmillan had often play-acted being an old man long before real old age set in. As early as 1948 Humphry Berkeley wrote of how "he makes a show of
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