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Feb 23, 1994 · Harold Macmillan, who was prime minister from 1957 to 1963, believed in fidelity, loved his wife, and was heartbroken when she died. ... For the first couple of years the marriage appeared happy ...
Lady Evelyn Petty-Fitzmaurice. Lady Dorothy Evelyn Macmillan GBE ( née Cavendish; 28 July 1900 – 21 May 1966) was an English socialite and the third daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, and Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. She was married to Harold Macmillan from 1920 until her death.
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Victory Medal. British War Medal. 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. [1] Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit, and unflappability .
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Dec 29, 2016 · This December marks thirty years since the death of Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister who took over in 1957 from Anthony Eden following the Suez Crisis. He is perhaps best known for his soundbites – describing the breakup of the British Empire as an African ‘wind of change’, or claiming that in Britain’s affluent postwar society ...
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Harold Macmillan was born in Chelsea, London, England, to Maurice Crawford Macmillan (1853-1936) and Helen (Nellie) Artie Tarleton Belles (1856-1937). His paternal grandfather, Daniel Macmillan (1813-1857), was the Scottish crofter who would go on to found Macmillan Publishers. Harold was first educated at Summer Fields School and then at Eton, but...
He married Lady Dorothy Cavendish, daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire on April 21, 1920. Between 1929 and 1935, Lady Dorothy had a long affair with the Conservative politician Robert Boothby, in the public view of Westminster and established society. Boothby was widely rumored to have been the father of Macmillan's youngest daught...
Elected to the House of Commons in 1924 for Stockton-on-Tees, he lost his seat in 1929, only to return in 1931. Macmillan spent the 1930s on the back benches, with his anti-appeasement ideals and sharp criticism of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlainserving to isolate him. During this time (1938), he published the first edition of his book, The...
Government
Once elected, Macmillan filled government posts with 35 family members, 7 of whom sat in Cabinet.
Independent nuclear deterrent
Following the technical failures of a British independent nuclear deterrent with the Blue Streak and the Blue Steel projects, and the unilateral cancellation of the Skybolt missile system by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Macmillan negotiated the delivering of American Polaris missiles to the UK under the Nassau agreement in December 1962. Previously, he had agreed to base 60 Thor missiles in Britain under joint control, and since late 1957, the American McMahon Act had been eased to...
EEC
Britain's application to join the EEC was vetoed by Charles de Gaulle(January 29, 1963), in part due to de Gaulle's fear that "the end would be a colossal Atlantic Community dependent on America" and in part in anger at the Anglo-American nuclear deal.
The Profumo affair of spring and summer 1963 permanently damaged the credibility of Macmillan's government. He survived a Parliamentary vote with a majority of 69, one less than had been thought necessary for his survival, and was afterwards joined in the smoking-room only by his son and son-in-law, not by any Cabinet minister. Nonetheless, Butler ...
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Oct 9, 2010 · But Macmillan – a bit of a toff married to the Duke of Devonshire's daughter – worked his passage over four long decades. He was younger than Cameron (30) when he became an MP, but three years ...
