Maurice Macmillan
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The Right Honourable Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (27 January 1921-10 March 1984) was a Conservative politician and Member of Parliament. He was the son of Harold Macmillan (who was Prime Minister 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. He served with the Sussex Yeomanry in Europe in World War II. Like his father, he was Chairman of Macmillan Publishers, as well as a director of two news agencies.
Macmillan contested Seaham at the 1945 election, Lincoln in 1951 and Wakefield at a 1954 by-election. He served on Kensington Borough Council 1949-53. He was elected MP for Halifax at the 1955 election but lost this seat in 1964. He was then elected for Farnham at a 1966 by-election. This latter seat became South West Surrey at the UK general election, 1983. He served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1970-72, Secretary of State for Employment 1972-73 and Paymaster General 1973-74 under Edward Heath. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1972.
Macmillan married The Hon. Katherine Ormsby-Gore, a daughter of the 4th Baron Harlech, on 22 August 1942. They had four sons and a daughter. Upon his father's elevation to the peerage on 10 February 1984 as Earl of Stockton, he acquired the courtesy title Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden. He died suddenly on 12 March 1984, aged 63. His son, Alexander, succeeded as 2nd Earl of Stockton on the death of the 1st Earl. He was for a time the owner of Highgrove.
| Preceded by: Leonard Robert Carr | Secretary of State for Employment 1972–1973 | Succeeded by: William Whitelaw |
| Preceded by: The Viscount Eccles | Paymaster-General 1973–1974 | Succeeded by: Edmund Dell |