He later became First Lord of the Admiralty under Eden in 1956, and under Macmillan served as chairman of the party and campaign organiser for the 1959 general election.

Harold Macmillan was the last British Prime Minister born in the 19th Century or the reign of Queen Victoria, and the last to have served in World War I.

Macmillan served with distinction as a captain in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War, and was wounded on three occasions.

During this assignment Macmillan served as liaison and mediator between Churchill and US General Dwight D. Eisenhower in North Africa, building a rapport with the latter that would prove helpful in his later career.

Macmillan served as Minister of Defence from October 1954, but found his authority restricted by Churchill's personal involvement.

In the Eden and Macmillan governments he served first as Minister of Labour and National Service ( 1957-9 ) and then as Secretary of State for the Colonies ( 1959 – 61 ).

Bible Student Alexander H. Macmillan, who served as an aide to the executive committee, later wrote that tensions at the Watch Tower Society headquarters mounted as the day for election of the Society's officers approached.

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 ".

The twenty-second Baron served in the Conservative administrations of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home as a government whip from 1961 to 1962 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Local Government from 1962 to 1964.

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.

His eldest son, the sixth Earl, sat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and served under Harold Macmillan as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) from 1958 to 1959. the titles are held by his only son, the seventh Earl, who succeeded in 1966.

He served in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ( Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords ) for nine years.

He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bedford from 1950 to 1966 and served under Sir Anthony Eden as Under-Secretary of State for Air from 1955 to 1957 and under Harold Macmillan as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1957 to 1958.

He served in the Cabinet under Macmillan as Secretary of State for War from 1958 to 1960 and under Macmillan and his successor Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1960 to 1964.

His nephew, the third Viscount, served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ( Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords ) in the Conservative administrations of Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath.

Amery's younger son, Julian Amery ( 1919 – 1996 ), became a Conservative politician ; he served in the cabinets of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Minister for Aviation ( 1962 – 64 ), and held junior ministerial office under Edward Heath.

He served in the Conservative administrations of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Minister of State for Trade and Minister of State for Home Affairs.

His grandson, the fifth Baron, served as Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1959 to 1964 in the Conservative governments of Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1964.

The latter's nephew, the sixth Baron, served as Private Secretary to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from 1957 to 1963.

: Tea and coffee are served every weekday afternoon in Macmillan Hall ’ s Art Exhibit Room.

Under Prime Minister Anthony Eden he served briefly, from November 1956 to January 1957, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; and under Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was from 1957 to 1961 Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

The British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who had served on the Western Front during the First World War, was also profoundly affected by the book.

Sir Ronald Macmillan Algie ( 22 October 1888 – 23 July 1978 ) was a New Zealand politician who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives for six years in the 1960s.

In October 1955 Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, " I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called ' Third Man ', if indeed there was one.

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Macmillan attained real power and Cabinet rank upon being sent to North Africa in 1942 as British government representative to the Allies in the Mediterranean, reporting directly to Prime Minister Winston Churchill over the head of the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden.

' Of the role of Foreign Secretary Macmillan famously observed:

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.

Macmillan was succeeded as Prime Minister by the Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home in a controversial move ; it was alleged that Macmillan had pulled strings and utilised the party's grandees, nicknamed ' The Magic Circle ', who had slanted their " soundings " of opinion amongst MPs and Cabinet Ministers to ensure that Butler was not chosen as his successor.

Under the premierships of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan he was appointed to a series of increasingly senior posts, including Leader of the House of Lords and Foreign Secretary.

Macmillan agreed with Heathcoat-Amory that the best successor at the Treasury would be the current Foreign Secretary, Selwyn Lloyd.

After discussions with Lloyd and senior civil servants, Macmillan took the unprecedented step of appointing two Foreign Office cabinet ministers: Home, as Foreign Secretary, in the Lords, and Edward Heath, as Lord Privy Seal and deputy Foreign Secretary, in the Commons.

He continued to serve as Foreign Secretary under Harold Macmillan until 1960.

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 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.

They were accompanied by the foreign ministers of the four powers ( who were also members of the Council of Foreign Ministers ): John Foster Dulles, Harold Macmillan, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Antoine Pinay.

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.

Foreign minister Fatin Rüştü Zorlu paid heed to Macmillan and launched a harsh opening salvo, stating that Turkey would reconsider its commitment to the Treaty of Lausanne unless Greece reconsidered its position on Cyprus.

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

He held his first government posts under Harold Macmillan as a Lord of the Treasury ( government whip ) between 1961 and 1962 and under Macmillan and then Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour between 1962 and 1964.

In the Second World War Macmillan at last attained office, serving in the wartime coalition government as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply from 1940 to 1942.

Macmillan returned to England after the European war and was Secretary of State for Air for two months in Churchill's caretaker government, ' much of which was taken up in electioneering ', there being ' nothing much to be done in the way of forward planning '.

Macmillan also failed to heed a warning from the Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that whatever the British government did should wait until after the US presidential election on 6 November, and failed to report Dulles ' remarks to Eden.

When Skybolt was in turn unilaterally cancelled by U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Macmillan negotiated with President John F. Kennedy the purchase of Polaris missiles from the United States under the Nassau agreement in December 1962.

Satirical targets, such as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Home Secretary Henry Brooke would be lampooned in sketches, debates and monologues.

Whilst studying at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association in Michaelmas 1960, in which term he entertained both the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Home Secretary ( and de facto Deputy Prime Minister, although he did not hold the title until 1962 ) Rab Butler.