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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
Harold Macmillan was a British politician who was prime minister from January 1957 to October 1963. The son of an American-born mother and the grandson of a founder of the London publishing house of Macmillan & Co., he was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He distinguished himself in combat.
Prime Minister Harold 'Supermac' Macmillan distanced the UK from apartheid, sped up the process of decolonisation and was heavily involved in negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Dec 30, 1986 · Harold Macmillan, who as Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963 helped Britain to adapt to its changing role in the world and its reduced military, economic and diplomatic power, died yesterday after a...
Harold Macmillan © Macmillan was Conservative prime minister of Britain from 1957 to 1963, and presided over a time of prosperity and the easing of Cold War tensions. Harold Macmillan was...
Harold Macmillan was the last Prime Minister to be born in the Victorian era. His public image was that of an unflappable Edwardian gentleman. His premiership saw many political successes, not least restoring relations with the US after the rupture of Suez.
When Harold Macmillan was invited to form an administration by the Queen on 10 January 1957 he warned Her Majesty that his government in all likelihood would not last six weeks. In fact, as the Queen reminded him at their final audience in October 1963, his time as Prime Minister lasted over six years, and in terms of the changes Britain ...
