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Maurice Harold Macmillan (February 10, 1894 - December 29, 1986) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
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 sublte indicators and controls were also introduced during his premiership.
Macmillan also took close control of foreign policy, he worked to narrow the rift post-Suez with the U.S., where he wartime friendship with Eisenhower was useful and the two had a pleasant conference in Bermuda as early as March 1957.
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 Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, Earl of Stockton - MSN Encarta
Macmillan was born in London, of an Anglo-American marriage.
These political crises considerably weakened Macmillan’s authority and were damaging to the electoral fortunes of the Conservatives, as reflected in the Orpington by-election (1962), which signalled a revival for the Liberals.
Macmillan was granted a hereditary earldom in 1984, which enabled him to renew his relationship with the constituency of Stockton, where his political career had begun 60 years earlier.
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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
Harold Macmillan was born in Brixton to Maurice Crawford Macmillan (1853-1936) and Helen Artie Tarleton Belles (1856-1937).
Macmillan was a force in the successful negotiations leading to the signing of the 1962 Partial Test Ban Treaty by Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.
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 British Prime Ministers: MacMillan, Maurice Harold (1894-1986)
Macmillan's reputation was partly rehabilitated by the successful negotiations (July 1963) among Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union for the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, but demands continued within his own party for a new and younger leader, and, after undergoing surgery, he resigned his office on Oct. 18, 1963.
Macmillan refused a peerage and retired from the House of Commons in September 1964.
Macmillan's papers are currently held at the Bodelian Library at Oxford University and his Foreign Office papers are held by the Public Record Office.
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 Maurice Macmillan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden PC (27 January 1921–10 March 1984) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament.
Macmillan was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.
Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, later styled Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, later 2nd Earl of Stockton (b.
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 Harold Macmillan Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The British politician and prime minister (Maurice) Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) was one of the outstanding Conservative leaders of the 20th century in terms of achieving both unity in his party and electoral success.
Macmillan served as parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Supply from 1940 to 1942, as undersecretary of state for the colonies in 1942, and his most important office, as minister resident at Allied Headquarters in Northwest Africa from 1942 to 1945.
Macmillan was also instrumental in negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty that was signed by the former Soviet Union, England, and the United States in 1963.
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 Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, 1st earl of Stockton - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A descendant of the founder of the publishing house of Macmillan and Company, he was educated at Eton and at Oxford and served in World War I. He entered Parliament in 1924 as a Conservative.
In the 1959 election, Macmillan told the country, "You've never had it so good," pointing to the full employment and substantial rise in real earnings of the 1950s, and he and his party won a landslide victory.
Macmillan served as chancellor (1960-86) of Oxford Univ. and as chairman (1963-74) of the Macmillan publishing house.
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 MACMILLAN, Maurice Harold @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
Macmillan took his first Cabinet position as Minister for Housing (1951-1954) in the third Cabinet of Winston Churchill, where he was instrumental in the postwar rebuilding of Britain.
Macmillan successfully negotiated for supplying US nuclear missiles for the British submarines, but the French president Charles de Gaulle vetoed (29 Jan 1963) UK application to the European Economic Community, particularly objecting to Angle-British nuclear cooperation.
Macmillan worked hard with Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev to establish the Test Ban treaty in 1963 but his administration was weakened by a scandal involving one of his junior ministers, leading to investigations of lax internal security in the face of Cold War spying.
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 Harold Macmillan - WikiLeasing.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
'Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton', OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician aad Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
Macmillan apent the 1930s on the backbenches, with his anti-appeasement ideals and sharp criticism of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain serving to isolate him.
Macmillan brushed aside this ibcident as "a little local difficulty".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.
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 AllRefer.com - Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, 1st earl of Stockton (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, 1st earl of Stockton, British And Irish History, Biographies
Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, 1st earl of Stockton 1894–1986, British statesman.
Macmillan served as chancellor (1960–86) of Oxford Univ. and as chairman (1963–74) of the Macmillan publishing house.
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 Biography for: Frederick Orridge Macmillan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He was the eldest son of Daniel Macmillan, a founding partner in the bookselling and publishing firm of Macmillan and Co., and his wife Frances, the only daughter of Charles Orridge, a Cambridge chemist.
Macmillan was among those invited by JW to the private view of the Royal Society of British Artists' 1887-88 winter exhibition (database">#13403).
Macmillan was prominent in the establishment of the 'net book agreement' in 1890.
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 Fort Frances Times - 2006-10-18 - MacMillan first centenarian born in Emo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
That’s what people were saying Saturday afternoon as Maurice MacMillan celebrated his 100th birthday at Knox United Church in Emo—and became the first centenarian to be born there.
MacMillan spent most of his life in Emo, farming, attending nearly 90 Emo fall fairs, and serving on municipal council.
MacMillan even had a surprise “special guest” visit—Wendy Judson portrayed one of his Scottish relatives and staged a comedic routine with him.
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 The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club - Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 - 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the
Suffering a nervous breakdown after his wife's affair with Boothby, Macmillan spent the 1930s on the backbenches, with his anti-appeasement ideals and sharp criticism of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain serving to isolate him - not to mention his boring, bookish manner.
During this assignment Macmillan worked closely with Dwight Eisenhower, a friendship which would prove crucial in his later career, and was involved with the installation of a pro-British government in
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 Maurice Macmillan - WikiLeasing.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
'Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden' (27 January 1921-10 March 1984) was a Conservative olitician and Member of Parliament.
He was the son of Harold Macmillan (who was Prime MMinister from 1957 to 1963) and the former Lady Dorothy Cavendish, daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire.Macmillan was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.
Like his father, e was Chairman of Macmillan Publishers, as well as a director of two news agencies.
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 Macmillan (Maurice) Harold Earl of Stockton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Macmillan (Maurice) Harold Earl of Stockton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, Earl of Stockton : quotations
Abrahams, Harold Maurice (1899-1978), British sprinter and long jumper who represented Britain in track-and-field events in the 1920 and 1924...
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 thePeerage.com - John Spencer Cavendish and others
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, son of Maurice Macmillan, on 21 April 1920.
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton was born in 1894.
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton was also known as Harold.
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 Abrahams Harold Maurice - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Abrahams, Harold Maurice (1899-1978), British sprinter and long-jumper.
Born at Bedford, he was educated at Cambridge University where he set a...
Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, Earl of Stockton (1894-1986), British Prime Minister (1957-1963), who oversaw Britain’s rapid retreat from Empire and...
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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 - 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
Macmillan died at Birch Grove in Sussex in 1986 aged 92 years and 322 days - the greatest age attained by a British Prime Minister until surpassed by James Callaghan on February 14, 2005.
Harold Macmillan, Esq, MP (29 October 1924-30 May 1929)
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Her second husband was Maurice Macmillan, a publisher, whom she met and married while in Europe.
Maurice MacMillan (Nellie Belles) to her father, Dr. J.
In her letters, MacMillan describers her travels throughout Europe.
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 Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, Earl of Stockton - MSN Encarta
Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, Earl of Stockton (1894-1986), British prime minister (1957-1963).
He was born in London and educated at Eton College and...
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 Amazon.com: "Daniel Macmillan": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Macmillan: A Publishing Tradition from 1843 by Elizabeth James
The chief `object' of their joint attentions was Daniel Macmillan, then sixteen, a clever, beautiful, boy, who remained Maynard's lifelong friend and published all his books.
A few months later, the two remarkable young Scotsmen who ran it, Daniel Macmillan (born in 1813) and his brother Alexander (born in 1818), decided to move to more suitable quarters in Cam- bridge,...
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 HC Select Committee [Anti-Discrimination (No.2) Bill] | Margaret Thatcher Foundation
Maurice Macmillan, Secretary of State for Employment, a Member of the House, examined.
Macmillan, thank you very much for coming to the Committee today.
Macmillan, you favour more precise definitions of exemptions, I understand.
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 Amazon.com: "Macmillan's Magazine": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Macmillan's Magazine, 1859-1907: No Flippancy or Abuse Allowed (The Nineteenth Century Series) by George J. Worth
CHAPTER ONE The Beginning 1859, before and beyond The first number of Macmillan's Magazine appeared at the end of October 1859.
Macmillan's Magazine PER Published monthly from November 1859-October 1907 Once a Week PER Published weekly from 2 July 1859-May 1879.
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 Maurice Harold Macmillan, Earl of Stockton (1895-1986)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
When Churchill returned to the prime ministership in 1951, Macmillan served as housing minister from 1951-1954 and foreign secretary of defense in 1955.
When he replaced Anthony Eden as prime minister in 1957, he helped improve British-American relations, visited Khrushchev's Soviet Union, helped negotiate the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, championed independence for British colonies, and unsuccessfully tried to get Britain included in the European Economic Community (also known as the Common Market).
He remained outside politics until 1985, when he was made a member of the House of Lords, from which he criticized the decisions of Margaret Thatcher's government.
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 Frederick Denison Maurice Kingdom Of Christ Editions: New, Used, Rare - Book Cost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Frederick Denison Maurice Kingdom Of Christ Editions: New, Used, Rare - Book Cost
Frederick Denison Maurice - E.P. Dutton & Co
Frederick Denison Maurice - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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 EARTHWORK OUT OF TUSCANY BEING IMPRESSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS - Maurice Hewlett
EARTHWORK OUT OF TUSCANY BEING IMPRESSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS - Maurice Hewlett
EARTHWORK OUT OF TUSCANY BEING IMPRESSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS by Hewlett, Maurice
MacMillan, 1907 Red cloth, gilt titles, edges very lightly rubbed; pages untrimmed.
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