Maurice Macmillan

The Right Honourable
Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden
The Right Honourable Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden
	Macmillan in 1957
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Paymaster General
	In office; 2 December 1973 – 4 March 1974
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	The Viscount Eccles
Succeeded by	Edmund Dell
Secretary of State for Employment
	In office; 7 April 1972 – 2 December 1973
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Robert Carr
Succeeded by	William Whitelaw
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
	In office; 23 June 1970 – 7 April 1972
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Jack Diamond
Succeeded by	Patrick Jenkin
Member of Parliament; for South West Surrey
	In office; 9 June 1983 – 10 March 1984
Preceded by	new constituency
Succeeded by	Virginia Bottomley
Member of Parliament; for Farnham
	In office; 31 March 1966 – 13 May 1983
Preceded by	Godfrey Nicholson
Succeeded by	constituency abolished
Member of Parliament; for Halifax
	In office; 26 May 1955 – 25 September 1964
Preceded by	Dryden Brook
Succeeded by	Shirley Summerskill
Personal details
Born	27 January 1921; Westminster, London, England
Died	10 March 1984 (aged 63); Westminster, London, England
Spouse	Katherine Ormsby-Gore (m. 1942)
Children	5, including:; Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton;
Parents	Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton; Lady Dorothy Cavendish;
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

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 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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