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  Harold Macmillan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Macmillan was born in Brixton to Maurice Crawford MacMillan (1853 - 1936) and his wife Helen Artie Tarleton Belles (1856 - 1937).
Macmillan supported the creation of the National Incomes Commission as a means to institute controls on income as part of his growth without inflation policy, a further series of subtle indicators and controls were also introduced during his premiership.
Macmillan was a major force in the successful negotiations leading to Britain, the U.S., and the Soviet Union signing the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1962.
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 Macmillan Publishers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately-held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
Macmillan was founded in 1843 by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two brothers from the Isle of Arran, Scotland.
After his death, his son Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton took up the leadership of the publishers.
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 History of the Clan Macrae - Preface
John Macrae of Dingwall, and not Alexander of Inverinate, was the eldest son of the Rev.
Farquhar Macrae (gen 7) of Kintail; and as the Rev.
Alexander Matheson, shipowner, Dornie, one of the best read and most intelligent of Highland seannachies, whose acquaintance it was my misfortune not to have made until only a few weeks before his death, which occurred on the 14th of October, 1897.
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 Encyclopedia: Harold Macmillan
The Right Honourable Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT,1 PC (2 July 1903–9 October 1995), 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October...
Macmillan famously replied: "I should like that to be translated if he wants to say anything." Jump to: navigation, search September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years).
Alexander Daniel Allan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born October 10, 1943) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
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 MACMILLAN - LoveToKnow Article on MACMILLAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The founders of the firm were two Scotsmen, Daniel Macmillan (1813-1857) and his younger brother Alexander (1818-1896).
Daniel was a native of the Isle of Arran, and Alexander was born in Irvine on the 3rd of October 1818.
The American firm of the Macmillan Company, of which he was also a director, is a separate business.
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 MyClan.com : Clan Macmillan : Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Castle Sween is one of the oldest fortresses in Scotland, and Alexander married Erca, daughter of Hector Macneil and heiress to the castle.
Donald Macmillan from Tulloch was induced to surrender to the Duke of Cumberland under the impression that he and his companions from Glenurquart had been promised protection, but they were transported to the Caribbean without trial.
Alexander Macmillan of Dunmore, sometime Depute Keeper of the Signet, an important legal post in Edinburgh, died in July 1770.
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 Alexander MacMillan: NS Liberal Caucus On Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After the upper house was abolished, Macmillan decided to run again for an Assembly seat and was elected in Digby County in the 1928 election.
In 1933, MacMillan ran in Hants County instead of Digby and was re-elected.
MacMillan was one of the first to recognize the importance of roads in the growth of tourism, and undertook an ambitious highway paving program.
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 MacMillan, Alexander Stirling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MacMillan, Alexander Stirling, businessman, politician, premier of Nova Scotia 1940-45 (b at Upper South River, NS 31 Oct 1871?; d at Halifax 7 Aug 1955).
After a successful career in lumbering and construction, he was appointed chairman of the Nova Scotia Highways Board in 1920 and served briefly as minister of highways in 1925.
A tough debater and a shrewd politician, the aging MacMillan found wartime leadership burdensome.
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 Harold Macmillan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (February 10, 1894 - December 29, 1986) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
He worked to narrow the rift post-Suez with the U.S., where his wartime friendship with Eisenhower was useful, and the two had a pleasant conference in Bermuda as early as March 1957.
Macmillan also saw the value of a rapproachment with Europe and sought belated entry to the European Economic Community (EEC) as well as exploring the possibility of a European Free Trade Area (EFTA).
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 Count Nikolai Tolstoy: The Bleiburg Massacres
Macmillan’s diary was compiled with a view to eventual publication, and is consequently not always as candid or complete as it might otherwise have been.
Hitherto both Keightley and Macmillan had withheld all reference to this "verbal directive" from their colleagues, and the only reason that the 5 Corps Commander chose to reveal it was in the context of an attempt to reverse a newly-received order from Alexander forbidding him to use force to compel Cossacks to return "home".
Macmillan’s diary is silent sent late that night by Alexander Kirk, Macmillan’s American counterpart as political adviser to Alexander, to the State Department in Washington.
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 MacMillan Clan
This tower was built by Alexander MacMillan, husband of the MacNeil heiress to the castle, and is known as MacMillan's tower.
MacMillans have been involved in many of Scotland's battles, and were never hesitant to fight for the Scottish cause.
MacMillans fought beside Bruce at the glorious Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, where the Scots drove the English from their land and reestablished the independence of their nation.
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 Definition of Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton
Alexander Daniel Allan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born 1943) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He inherited his peerage from his grandfather, Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
Both his father Maurice Victor Macmillan (1920-1984) and his grandfather preceded him as Chairman of Macmillan Ltd., the publishing house long owned by the family.
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 McMillan
The MacMillans are descended from Gilchrist, one of six sons of Cormac, the Bishop of Dunkeld around 1100.
By 1742 the direct line of the MacMillan chieftainship had become extinct and the chieftainship passed to MacMillan of Dunmore at the side of Loch Tarbert.
In 1951 Sir Gordon Holmes MacMillan of Finlaystone was recognised as clan chief by the Lyon Court.
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 Alexander S Macmillan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alexander Stirling MacMillan (1871-1955) was a Nova Scotia politician and businessman.
MacMillan made his fortune in lumbering and construction before being made chairman of the Nova Scotia Highways Board in 1920 and serving briefly as minister of highways in 1925.
He was a member of Nova Scotia's appointed Upper House, the Legislative Council from 1925 until 1928 when he won a seat in the province's House of Assembly as a Liberal.
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 Harold Macmillan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Harold Macmillan, a one time British Prime Minister, used to say that it was "events" which counted and not "words".
Harold Macmillan, the British Premier on a tour of Africa in 1959, addressed the SA Parliament, where he repeated his “wind of changes Africa” speech, a...
When Eden resigned in January 1957 he was succeeded by Macmillan on the 10th (despite many expecting R.A. Butler to succeed instead) and Macmillan also became leader of the Conservative Party (22nd).
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 Scotland
On the east shore of Loch Sween in Knapdale, Scotland, is Castle Sween; the earliest existing stone castle in Scotland and was built in the mid 1100’s.
Castle Sween was the residence of Alexander MacMillan, 5th of Knap, and 12th Chief of the Clan MacMillan.
Chief: George MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap, Finlaystone, Langbank, PA146TJ, Scotland,
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 Alexander Genealogy Family Tree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alexander was born December 28, 1776 in Ireland, and died June 06, 1850 in Gallipolis, Gallia Co., Ohio.
Alexander, born November 02, 1805 in Ireland; died October 06, 1840 in Delaware County, Ohio.
Alexander, born July 06, 1830 in Delaware County, Ohio; died September 24, 1898 in Gallipolis, Gallia Co., Ohio.
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 Clan MacMillan / McMillan - The Chief - George MacMillan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
George Gordon MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap, M.A., D.L. (born 1930 in London, England) is the eldest of the five children of the late
Finlaystone had by then become the home of Clan MacMillan, since in 1952 George’s father had been declared by the Lord Lyon to be the Hereditary Chief of Clan MacMillan, as the heir of Sir Gordon’s great-great-grand-uncle Duncan MacMillan of Dunmore, who had died childless 153 years before.
Jane MacMillan is active on the boards of local hospitals and the area branch of Macmillan Cancer Relief, while George is a past member of the board of the nearby Quarriers Homes and continues to be involved in other charitable work.
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 Encyclopedia: Macmillan Publishers
The company is made up of over 50 different divisions operating in five areas of publishing: A company is, in general, any group of persons united to pursue a common interest.
English as an additional language is used to refer to the learning of English by speakers of other languages.
In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state.
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 MacMillan Photo Album
John E. MacMillan was father of James A. MacMillan, grandfather of James Robert MacMillan, and greatgrandfather of James A. MacMillan II.
James Alexander MacMillan a few weeks after the death of his wife holding his son James R. MacMillan.
Grandparents of James A. MacMillan II, whom are both buried in Sicily, pictured with Aunt, middle.
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After the death of his father John Gordon MacMillan and his sisters were taken to Australia by their mother Catherine Campbell.
Dugald Alexander MacMillan went out to India as a young man to become a coffee planter where he met and married Laura Winifred Allardyce.
Sir Gordon MacMillan was married to Marian Blakiston-Houston, the grand-daughter of George Jardine Kidston, the proprietor of the Clyde Shipping Company and laird of Finlaystone.
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 MacMillan, Alexander
In The Presbyterian RecordCharles Peaker called Alexander MacMillan "our greatest hymnologist" (January 1973).
Alexander and his wife, Wilhelmina Katherine MacMillan (b Ross), had four children: Ernest and three daughters.
Dorothy MacMillan Hill (b 1897 or 1898, d 1953) was a teacher at the TCM (RCMT); Jean Ross MacMillan (b 1901, d 5 May 1990) was a reference librarian with Toronto Public Library; and Winifred (b 1903, d 1952) married Ettore Mazzoleni and performed in a two-piano ensemble with Kathleen Irwin (see Piano teams).
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 Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born 1943) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was one of the hereditary peers to have been exclude from the House of Lords.
He inherited his peerage from his grandfather, Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who had been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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 Alexander MacMillan - Nutley Sons Honor Roll
"Sandy" MacMillan, a Marine Corp. reservist and World War II veteran of Guadalcanal and other Pacific campaigns was killed in action in an ambush by Chinese Communists northwest of Honsong, Korea on March 22, 1951.
Corporal MacMillan was in heavy fighting during the Hungnam retreat, in November - December 1950.
MacMillan, who was buried at the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., is survived by his parents, Thomas and Retta Cuthbertson MacMillan, of Orange, and his sister Elsie Harbach of Passaic Ave and a brother Robert.
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 Harold Macmillan --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The son of an American-born mother and the grandson of a founder of the London publishing house of Macmillan and Co., he was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
Scottish booksellers and publishers who, in 1843, founded Macmillan and Co., a bookshop that grew into one of the largest publishing firms in the world, producing textbooks, works of science and literature, and high-quality periodicals.
His arrest in 1962 and subsequent imprisonment (he was released in 1972) provoked a political scandal that brought disgrace on the...
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 MacMillan History Pieces
MacMillan's interest in the history of Glengarry was profound.
The Kilmory Cross was erected around 1500 for Alexander MacMillan, son of Lachlan Og, MacMillan Chief, at Kilmory chapel, South Kintyre.
Re-activation of the Glengarry and District Branch of the North American Clan MacMillan Society.
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 The Crusader's Wife by James Tissot, 1836-1902
Provenance: Possibly Dante Gabriel Rossetti, to whom Macmillan gave either this drawing or the one for the frontispiece.
Rossetti was deeply impressed by the present work, writing to his friend Alexander Macmillan:'I have seen the frontispiece & vignette to Tom Taylor's Breton Ballads designed by Tissot, which are admirable things.
Could you as their publisher let me have a proof of each separate from the work?"" Macmillan responded with the gift of a drawing, possibly the present one.
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 Kimball Descendants: Eighteenth Generation
She married William Thomas "Willie" Macmillan in Salt Springs, Antigonish, Ns, April 11, 1934.
William was the son of John Macmillan and Mary Jane Cameron.
At 42 years of age William became the father of William Alexander "Billie" Macmillan in Livingstone Cove, Antigonish, Ns, August 5, 1945.
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 Palgrave Macmillan -- About Us (Palgrave History)
Palgrave Macmillan was formed when St. Martin's Press Scholarly and Reference and Macmillan Press (UK) united their worldwide publishing operations.
The history of the company, located in the historic Flatiron Building in New York City, begins with the founding of its parent company, Macmillan Publishers Limited, in England, by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan in 1843.
Macmillan opened an office in New York in the late 1860s, that was later sold becoming what is now Macmillan USA.
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