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.

Nosp Misc Kir " to Axis of Amity, a Centrifuge compilation for raising money for the Macmillan Cancer Support-charity, the track title, however, is reversed, referring to Rick Simpson's THC Hemp Oil cure for cancer.

Like Macmillan Ormsby-Gore was distantly related to Kennedy, but had a closer relationship than did Macmillan with the President-elect and his brother Robert.

Starring Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler and John Hurt as Stephen Ward, personalities at the heart of the affair, the film details the scandal that, in 1963, rocked the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and may have contributed to the defeat of the ruling Conservative Party at the following year's general election.

* Obituary with biographical details in the Dictionary of National Biography ( 1901, Macmillan, New York, pages 181-182 )

Macmillan was overtaken by events when Butler leaked the details of the reshuffle to press baron Lord Rothermere over lunch on 11 July.

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.

The concept of full independence, or less controversial home rule, did not re-enter the Scottish mainstream until the 1960s, with the famous Wind of Change speech by Harold Macmillan, which marked the high point of decolonisation and the decline of the British Empire, which had already suffered the humiliation of the 1956 Suez Crisis.

A couple of months before being assassinated, U. S. President John F. Kennedy slept in the parish when he stayed one Saturday night at Birch Grove, the home of the former Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.

A friend of U. S. President John F. Kennedy, in December 1962 the President stayed at Taylor's home in Lyford Cay while he held talks with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

Macmillan encouraged Jenssen to try to sail upstream from Khartoum again in 1905, but he was forced to stop 300 miles short of Lake Tana.

* Andrew Marvell, Macmillan, 1905

* Reminiscences of Peace and War, Grosset & Dunlap, 1904 ; revised edition, Macmillan Company, ( 1905 ), available as free e-book at Googlebooks

* Simon Newcomb, A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy ( Macmillan, 1906 – republished by Dover, 1960 ), 160-172.

* Edward Westermarck, The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas Macmillan, 1906.

* Henry Charles Lea, The history of the Inquisition of Spain, ( Macmillan, 1906 – 07 ) Wikisource: A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages / Volume I

* Fortescue, J. W., Sir ( 1906 ) A history of the British Army: Vol 4, From the fall of the Bastille to the Peace of Amiens 1789-1801, 3 pts, London: Macmillan

Macmillan, NY, 1906.

The last time a British monarch unilaterally selected the British prime minister was in 1963, when Queen Elizabeth II appointed Alec Douglas-Home on the advice of outgoing prime minister Harold Macmillan.

As noted below ( see Reading Order ), the first American publisher, Macmillan, numbered the books in publication sequence, but when Harper Collins won the rights in 1994, at the suggestion of Lewis ' stepson they used the series ' internal chronological order.

However, when Macmillan replaced Eden as Prime Minister, Powell was offered the office of Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 14 January 1957.

Matthew Sturgis ' book 1992 and All This ( Macmillan, 1991 ) is a " humorous look at Europe in preparation for 1992 when Britain officially becomes part of the Continent.

He was Leader of the House of Lords when Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, announced his sudden resignation for health reasons at the start of the 1963 Conservative Party conference.

Macmillan was given responsibility for increasing colonial production and trade, and signalled the future direction of British policy when in June 1942 he declared:

During the Suez Crisis, when Britain invaded Egypt in collusion with France and Israel, according to Labour leader Harold Wilson Macmillan was ' first in, first out ': first very supportive of the invasion, then a prime mover in Britain's humiliating withdrawal in the wake of the financial crisis caused by pressure from the U. S. government.

Macmillan found himself drawn more actively into politics after Margaret Thatcher became Conservative leader in February 1975, and Prime Minister in May 1979 when the Tories ended Labour's five-year rule with an election win, and the record of his own premiership came under attack from the monetarists in the party, whose theories she supported.

' Even when insulted to his face attending the show ,' a biographer notes, ' Macmillan felt it was better to be mocked than ignored.

Set in 1963 during the Profumo scandal, Hugh Whitemore's play A Letter of Resignation, first staged at the Comedy Theatre in October 1997, dramatises the occasion when Harold Macmillan, staying with friends in Scotland, received a political bombshell, a letter of resignation from Profumo, his war minister.

Harold Macmillan was the MP for Bromley from 1945 until his retirement in 1964, when he was succeeded by John Hunt.

This was last done in Britain in 1963 when Elizabeth II appointed Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister, on the advice of outgoing Harold Macmillan.

Their professional relationship was to last until the end of the Bentley publishing house, when it was taken over by Macmillan in the late 1890s.

Brownlee's vision, unique among the members of the Macmillan Commission, of a publicly controlled central bank became a reality in 1938, when the Bank of Canada shifted from private to government control.

However Maudling was keen to return to economic policy, and seized his opportunity when Macmillan made it clear in private that he supported a voluntary incomes policy.

We the Living was first completed in 1934, but, despite support from H. L. Mencken, who deemed it " a really excellent piece of work ," it was rejected by several publishers until 1936, when George Platt Brett of Macmillan Publishing agreed to publish her book.

He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1955 to 1963, when all Scottish peers were given an automatic seat in the House of Lords, and served in the Conservative administration of Harold Macmillan as Minister of State for Scotland from 1958 to 1959.

It later emerged that in 1959, when a British delegation led by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was visiting Moscow, Burgess contacted members of the group asking permission to return to Britain and visit his dying mother.

He continued in this office in the governments of Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan until Macmillan's 1962 " Night of the Long Knives ", when he was abruptly replaced by Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, the Attorney-General.

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.

Manningham-Buller wrote the first report on the Profumo affair-an internal report for the Macmillan Government ( confirmed by his daughter Dame Eliza when she appeared on the " Desert Island Discs " radio programme ).

Negotiations with the British Government began as early as March 1959 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower mentioned the need to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at a meeting at Camp David.

It was made in 1957, when the Macmillan government presumably believed that defence policy was a reasonable thing for the BBC to debate, even in drama.