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"Member of Parliament" Maurice Macmillan Signed FDC Dated 1965:
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Up for sale "Member of Parliament" Maurice Macmillan Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1965.
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Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount
Macmillan of Ovenden (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. Macmillan was
the only son of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of
Stockton, and Lady Dorothy Cavendish,
daughter of Victor
Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
He served with the Sussex Yeomanry in
Europe in the Second World War. Like his
father, he was chairman of Macmillan Publishers, as
well as a director of two news agencies. Macmillan 1954 by-election. He
served on Kensington Borough Council from
1949 to 1953, then was elected MP for Halifax at
the 1955 general
election but lost this seat in 1964.
He was then elected for Farnham in 1966.
This latter seat became South West
Surrey at the 1983
election. He served as Economic Secretary to the
Treasury (1963–64) under Alec Douglas-Home, and as Chief Secretary to of State for
Employment (1972–73) and Paymaster General (1973–74) under Edward Heath. He was made a Privy
Counsellor in 1972.