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- Harold_Macmillan abstract "Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.Nicknamed "Supermac" and known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability, Macmillan achieved note before the Second World War as a Tory radical and critic of appeasement. As a child, teenager and later young man, he was an admirer of the policies and leadership of a succession of Liberal Prime Ministers, starting with Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who came to power near the end of 1905 when Macmillan was only 11 years old, and then H. H. Asquith, whom he later described as having "intellectual sincerity and moral nobility", and particularly of Asquith's successor, David Lloyd George, whom he regarded as a "man of action", likely to accomplish his goals.Macmillan served in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He was wounded three times, most severely in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He spent the rest of the war in a military hospital and suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life. After recovering sufficiently from his war wounds to be able to walk again, Macmillan joined his family business, then entered Parliament in the 1924 General Election, for the northern industrial constituency of Stockton-on-Tees. After losing his seat in 1929, he regained it in 1931, soon after which he spoke out against the high rate of unemployment in Stockton-on-Tees. However, he remained on the backbenches, as he was regarded as a "maverick" by the party whips, as he was frequently unwilling to follow his party's political line. He was even described by his political hero, and now Parliamentary colleague, the wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd-George, as a "born rebel".Rising to high office as a protégé of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Macmillan then served as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Churchill's successor Sir Anthony Eden. When Eden resigned as a result of the Suez Crisis in 1957, Macmillan succeeded him as Prime Minister. He believed in the post-war settlement and the necessity of a mixed economy, and in his premiership pursued corporatist policies to develop the domestic market as the engine of growth. During his time as prime minister, average living standards steadily rose while numerous social reforms were carried out such as the 1956 Clean Air Act, the 1957 Housing Act, the 1960 Offices Act, the 1960 Noise Abatement Act, the Factories Act 1961, the introduction of a graduated pension scheme to provide an additional income to retirers, the establishment of a Child's Special Allowance for the orphaned children of divorced parents, and a reduction in the standard work week from 48 to 42 hours.As a One Nation Tory of the Disraelian tradition, haunted by memories of the Great Depression, he championed a Keynesian strategy of public investment to maintain demand, winning a second term in 1959 with an increased majority on an electioneering budget. Benefiting from favourable international conditions, he presided over an age of affluence, marked by low unemployment and high if uneven growth. In his Bedford speech in July 1957 he told the nation they had 'never had it so good', but warned of the dangers of inflation, summing up the fragile prosperity of the 1950s.In international affairs, Macmillan rebuilt the special relationship with the United States from the wreckage of the Suez Crisis (of which he had been one of the architects), and redrew the world map by decolonising sub-Saharan Africa. Reconfiguring the nation's defences to meet the realities of the nuclear age, he ended National Service, strengthened the nuclear forces by acquiring Polaris, and pioneered the Nuclear Test Ban with the United States and the Soviet Union. Belatedly recognising the dangers of strategic dependence, he sought a new role for Britain in Europe, but his unwillingness to disclose United States nuclear secrets to France contributed to a French veto of the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community.Near the end of his premiership, his government was rocked by the Vassall and Profumo scandals, which seemed to symbolise for the rebellious youth of the 1960s the moral decay of the British establishment. Resigning prematurely after a medical misdiagnosis, Macmillan lived out a long retirement as an elder statesman of global stature. He was as trenchant a critic of his successors in his old age as he had been of his predecessors in his youth.Macmillan was the last British prime minister born in the reign of Queen Victoria, and the last to have served in the First World War.".
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- Harold_Macmillan activeYearsStartDate "1957-01-10".
- Harold_Macmillan almaMater Balliol_College,_Oxford.
- Harold_Macmillan award British_War_Medal.
- Harold_Macmillan award Victory_Medal_(United_Kingdom).
- Harold_Macmillan battle World_War_I.
- Harold_Macmillan birthDate "1894-02-10".
- Harold_Macmillan birthName "Maurice Harold Macmillan".
- Harold_Macmillan birthPlace Chelsea,_London.
- Harold_Macmillan birthPlace Middlesex.
- Harold_Macmillan birthYear "1894".
- Harold_Macmillan child Lady_Caroline_Faber.
- Harold_Macmillan child Maurice_Macmillan.
- Harold_Macmillan deathDate "1986-12-29".
- Harold_Macmillan deathPlace Chelwood_Gate.
- Harold_Macmillan deathPlace East_Sussex.
- Harold_Macmillan deathPlace Sussex.
- Harold_Macmillan deathYear "1986".
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- Harold_Macmillan militaryRank Captain_(armed_forces).
- Harold_Macmillan militaryUnit Grenadier_Guards.
- Harold_Macmillan monarch Elizabeth_II.
- Harold_Macmillan orderInOffice "Chancellor of the Exchequer".
- Harold_Macmillan orderInOffice "Minister of Defence".
- Harold_Macmillan orderInOffice "Minister of Housing and Local Government".
- Harold_Macmillan orderInOffice "Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply".
- Harold_Macmillan orderInOffice "Prime Minister of the United Kingdom".
- Harold_Macmillan orderInOffice "Secretary of State for Air".
- Harold_Macmillan orderInOffice "Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs".
- Harold_Macmillan orderInOffice "Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies".
- Harold_Macmillan party Conservative_Party_(UK).
- Harold_Macmillan primeMinister Anthony_Eden.
- Harold_Macmillan primeMinister Winston_Churchill.
- Harold_Macmillan religion Church_of_England.
- Harold_Macmillan spouse Lady_Dorothy_Macmillan.
- Harold_Macmillan successor Alec_Douglas-Home.
- Harold_Macmillan successor Duncan_Sandys.
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- Harold_Macmillan after Selwyn_Lloyd.
- Harold_Macmillan allegiance "United Kingdom".
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- Harold_Macmillan birthDate "1894-02-10".
- Harold_Macmillan birthPlace "Chelsea, Middlesex, England".
- Harold_Macmillan birthname "Maurice Harold Macmillan".
- Harold_Macmillan branch British_Army.
- Harold_Macmillan children Lady_Caroline_Faber.
- Harold_Macmillan children "Catherine Amery".
- Harold_Macmillan children "Maurice Macmillan".
- Harold_Macmillan children "Sarah Heath".
- Harold_Macmillan dateOfBirth "1894-02-10".
- Harold_Macmillan dateOfDeath "1986-12-29".
- Harold_Macmillan deathDate "1986-12-29".
- Harold_Macmillan deathPlace "Chelwood Gate, East Sussex, England".
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- Harold_Macmillan monarch Elizabeth_II.
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