In April 1935, Harold Latham of Macmillan, an editor who was looking for new fiction, read what she had written and saw that it could be a best-seller.

In 1927, Florence Deeks sued Wells for plagiarism, claiming that he had stolen much of the content of The Outline of History from a work, The Web, she had submitted to the Canadian Macmillan Company, but who held onto the manuscript for eight months before rejecting it.

The media ( particularly The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell ) used the allegation by Alastair Campbell that he had observed Major tucking his shirt into his underpants to caricature him wearing his pants outside his trousers, as a pale grey echo of both Superman and Supermac, a parody of Harold Macmillan.

* February 3 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town ( although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast – now Ghana – on January 10 ).

At Eton and at Cambridge, Keynes had been prolific in his homosexual activity ; significant among these early partners were Dilly Knox and Daniel Macmillan.

His speech did not go down well and Harold Macmillan, whom Butler had taken along for moral support, addressed them and was a great success.

After Macmillan's death in 1986 Powell said " Macmillan was a Whig, not a Tory ... he had no use for the Conservative loyalties and affections ; they interfered too much with the Whig's true vocation of detecting trends in events and riding them skilfully so as to preserve the privileges, property and interests of his class ".

Appointed in 1868, Price had already recommended to the university that the Press needed an efficient executive officer to exercise " vigilant superintendence " of the business, including its dealings with Alexander Macmillan, who became the publisher for Oxford's printing in 1863 and in 1866 helped Price to create the Clarendon Press series of cheap, elementary schoolbooks – perhaps the first time that Oxford used the Clarendon imprint.

Macmillan later appointed Heath Minister of Labour, a Cabinet Minister-as Chief Whip Heath had attended Cabinet but had not been formally a member-after winning the October 1959 election.

Hugh Gaitskell died in January 1963, aged 56, after a sudden flare of Lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease, just as the Labour Party had begun to unite and appeared to have a good chance of being elected to government, with the Macmillan government running into trouble.

Wilson's 1964 election campaign was aided by the Profumo Affair, a 1963 ministerial sex scandal that had mortally wounded the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan and was to taint his successor Sir Alec Douglas-Home, even though Home had not been involved in the scandal.

An entry attempt had been issued in July 1961 by the Macmillan government, and negotiated by Edward Heath as Lord Privy Seal, but was vetoed in 1963 by French President Charles de Gaulle.

In October 1964, Conservative Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( who had only been in power for 12 months since the resignation of Harold Macmillan ) called a general election.

Macmillan and Company publishers subsequently commissioned White to revise the 41-year-old text of The Elements of Style ( 1918 ) for a 1959 edition ( Strunk had died in 1946 ).

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.

Macmillan then attended Summer Fields School, Oxford ( 1903 – 6 ), but his time at Eton College ( 1906 – 10 ) was blighted by recurrent illness, starting with a near-fatal attack of pneumonia in his first half ; he missed his final year after being invalided out, and had to be taught at home by private tutors ( 1910 – 11 ), notably Ronald Knox, who did much to instil his High Church Anglicanism.

By this time Macmillan had lost the wire-rimmed glasses, toothy grin and brylcreemed hair of wartime photographs, and instead grew his hair thick and glossy, had his teeth capped and walked with the ramrod bearing of a former Guards officer — acquiring the distinguished appearance of his later career.

Macmillan served as Foreign Secretary in April – December 1955 in the government of newly appointed prime minister Anthony Eden, who had taken over from the retiring Winston Churchill.

The debacle destroyed Prime Minister Eden's political standing and his physical health ; he had to resign, leaving the door to 10 Downing Street open for his deputy Rab Butler or Macmillan.

In later life Macmillan was open about his failure to read Eisenhower's thoughts correctly and much regretted the damage done to Anglo-American relations, but always maintained that the Anglo-French military response to the nationalisation of the Canal had been for the best.

The Queen appointed Macmillan Prime Minister after taking advice from Winston Churchill and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, who had asked the Cabinet individually for their opinions, all but two or three of them opting for Macmillan.

The Macmillan government might be willing to let him go, but he has been dead seventy-eight years and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable.

However, since the 1960s, hereditary peerages have generally been eschewed, and life peerages have been preferred, although in 1984 Harold Macmillan was created Earl of Stockton.

Consequentially the paper opposed Macmillan ’ s government ’ s re-election in 1959, complaining: " The continued Conservative pretence that Suez was a good, a noble, a wise venture has been too much to stomach … the Government is taking its stand on a solid principle: ' Never admit a mistake.

On 25 March 1957 Macmillan acceded to Eisenhower's request to base 60 Thor IRBMs in England under joint control, to replace the nuclear bombers of the Strategic Air Command, which had been stationed under joint control in the country since 1948, and were approaching obsolescence.

The Conservative Party had, however, been suffering a decline in popularity for some time before the Profumo Affair, which could be traced back to the failed application to join the European common market and the Night of the Long Knives in July 1962, which had seen Macmillan dismiss seven members of his cabinet in an attempt to restore the government's popularity.

These developments were of key importance for domestic UK politics – as recently as the early 1980s large elements of the Labour Party had been opposed to British membership of the EC, whereas the Conservatives under Harold Macmillan ( 1957-1963 ) and Edward Heath ( 1970-1974 ) had favoured joining.

The demolition of the old Euston Station building in 1962 has been described as " one of the greatest acts of Post-War architectural vandalism in Britain " and is believed to have been finally sanctioned by the then Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

Since his death all these and a few additional lyrics and fragments have been published in one volume by Messrs Macmillan under the title of The Collected Poems of T. E. Brown ( 1900 ).

The then-prime minister Harold Macmillan, who had been the Member of Parliament for the nearby Stockton-on-Tees for two decades, was interviewed live on the opening night.

A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet under three Prime Ministers ( Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher ), and is widely regarded to have been the " power behind the throne " in the creation of what came to be known as " Thatcherism ".

While Dame Edna is a fictitious character whose life story has been entirely created by Barry Humphries, so complete is her identity as an individual that Macmillan published My Gorgeous Life, Edna's " autobiography " ( written by Humphries but credited to Edna herself ) on its non-fiction list.

Whilst he was the dean of biology at the University of East Anglia he was the head of a research team investigating cancer, and has been awarded a ' Champion ' award by Macmillan Cancer Relief for his work in support of people with cancer.

' ( Max Hastings, Going To The Wars, p. 363, Macmillan 2000 ) Although the British battalion seemed at the time to have had an easy victory, those actually engaged with the enemy platoons would have been unlikely to agree.

Macmillan and Ormsby-Gore had been attempting to achieve a test-ban treaty with the Russians for the past ten years, and won Kennedy over through letters from Macmillan and frank discussions between Ormsby-Gore and Kennedy.

In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford following the latter's death ; he held this position until his death.

In 1960, Trevor-Roper waged a successful campaign against the candidacy of Sir Oliver Franks who was backed by the heads of houses marshalled by Maurice Bowra, for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford, and had his old friend and publisher the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan elected instead.

After unsuccessfully contesting the Isle of Wight in the 1983 General Election ( 34, 904 votes ), she was elected to Parliament with 21, 545 votes in a by-election in 1984 ( filling the seat left vacant by the death of Maurice Macmillan, son of former prime minister Harold Macmillan ), as the Member for South West Surrey, received her first ministerial position in 1988 as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of the Environment and was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1989.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

Macmillan was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in December 1955, after just eight months as Foreign Secretary, and held this role for just over a year.

This was followed shortly after by the Wolfson Building, which was constructed between 1966 and 1967 and opened by Princess Alexandra and Harold Macmillan in his role as Chancellor of the University.

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Dilhorne, conducted a poll of cabinet members, and reported to Macmillan that taking account of first and second preferences there were ten votes for Home, four for Maudling, three for Butler and two for Hailsham.

He continued as Attorney-General under Sir Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan until July 1962, when he was rather abruptly named Lord Chancellor and sent to the House of Lords to replace Lord Kilmuir.

He remained in the post until he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1958, under Harold Macmillan, an office he retained until 1960.

Thorneycroft's support for Harold Macmillan in the Macmillan's successful 1957 leadership contest for the premiership led to his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, one of the most senior positions in the government.

Macmillan, himself a former Chancellor, made a famous and much-quoted remark to the effect that the resignations were merely " little local difficulties ".

From 1945 until 1976, the MP was Selwyn Lloyd, who served as Foreign Secretary under Anthony Eden and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Harold Macmillan, later becoming Speaker of the Commons in 1971 before being raised to the peerage in 1976.

In 1960 he came a close second to Harold Macmillan in the election of the Chancellor of Oxford University.

In the past hundred years, several other people came close to approaching this distinction: Herbert Henry Asquith and Winston Churchill both served as Chancellor, Prime Minister and Home Secretary while Harold Macmillan and John Major served as Prime Minister, Chancellor and Foreign Secretary.

Concerned that traditional Conservative voters were expressing their disapproval with the government's economic policies by switching to the Liberals, Harold Macmillan planned to replace his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Selwyn Lloyd, with Reginald Maudling.

Selwyn Lloyd, Chancellor of the Exchequer, whom Macmillan decided to replace in the reshuffle

Eccles and Kilmuir were the most disappointed, Eccles having hoped to succeed as Chancellor, and Kilmuir later writing that Macmillan appeared to have lost his ' nerve and judgement '.

Macmillan suggested on several occasions, including at his meeting with Lloyd to dismiss him as Chancellor, that he felt there was a conspiracy within the party to replace him as Prime Minister.

Harold Macmillan considered Viscount Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor, but Kilmuir rejected the job.

Harold Macmillan, formerly Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, was chosen over Rab Butler to succeeded as party leader and consequently as Prime Minister.

Peter Thorneycroft became Chancellor of the Exchequer, but caused embarrassment for Macmillan when he resigned only a year later.