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The Right Honourable Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st
Earl of Stockton, Order of Merit|OM, Privy
Council|PC (10 February 1894–29 December
1986), nicknamed "Supermac" and "Mac the Knife",
was a United Kingdom|British Conservative Party
(UK)|Conservative politician and Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.

==Early life==

Macmillan was born in Brixton. He was educated at
Eton College|Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford.
He served with distinction in WW I, being wounded
on three occasions. Elected to the United Kingdom
House of Commons|House of Commons in 1924 for
Stockton-on-Tees, he lost his seat in 1929 only to
return in 1931. In the 1930s he was stuck on the
backbenches, his leftish ideas and sharp criticism
of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain serving
to isolate him. In World War II he was part of the
wartime coalition government; he worked with the
Ministry of Supply before being sent to North
Africa in 1942 as British government
representative to the Allies in the Mediterranean.

He returned to England post-war and lost his own
seat in the massive electoral defeat of 1945. He
soon returned to Parliament in a November 1945
by-election for Bromley. When the Conservatives
regained power in 1951 he was Minister of Housing
(October 1951) then Secretary of State for
Defence|Minister of Defence (October 1954) under
Winston Churchill and Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary (April-December
1955) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1955-1957)
under Anthony Eden. When Eden resigned in January
1957 he was succeeded by Macmillan on the 10th
(despite many expecting Rab Butler to succeed
instead) and Macmillan also became leader of the
Conservative Party (22nd).

==Government==

Macmillan brought the monetary concerns of the
exchequer into office - the economy was his prime
concern. However his approach to the economy was
to seek high employment, whereas his treasury
ministers argued that to support sterling required
strict controls on money and hence a rise in
unemployment. Their advice was rejected and in
January 1958 all the Treasury ministers resigned.
Macmillan brushed aside this incident as "a little
local difficulty". 
Macmillan supported the creation of the National
Incomes Commission as a means to institute
controls on income as part of his growth without
inflation policy, a further series of subtle
indicators and controls were also introduced
during his premiership.



Macmillan also took close control of foreign
policy. He worked to narrow the rift post-Suez
Crisis|Suez with the U.S., where his wartime
friendship with Dwight D. Eisenhower was useful,
and the two had a pleasant conference in Bermuda
as early as March 1957. The better relationship
remained after the ascent of John F. Kennedy.
Macmillan also saw the value of a rapproachment
with Europe and sought belated entry to the
European Economic Community (EEC) as well as
exploring the possibility of a European Free Trade
Area (EFTA). In terms of the Empire Macmillan
continued the divestment of the colonies, his
"wind of change" speech (February 1960) indicating
his policy. Ghana and Malaya were granted
independence in 1957, Nigeria in 1960 and Kenya in
1963. However in the Middle East Macmillan ensured
Britain remained a force - intervening over Iraq
in 1958 and 1960 as well as becoming involved in
Oman.

He led the Conservatives to victory in the United
Kingdom general election, 1959|October 1959
general election, increasing his party's majority
from 67 to 107 seats. The election campaign had
been based on the economic improvements achieved,
the slogan "Life's Better Under the Conservatives"
was matched by Macmillan's own remark, "most of
our people have never had it so good" usually
paraphrased as  "You've never had it so good." The
actual growth rate, compared to the rest of
Europe, was weak and marked a relative decline
distorted by high defence expenditure.

Macmillan had a reputation for being unflappable
in public. For example, on September 29, 1960,
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev twice interrupted
a speech by Macmillan at the United Nations by
shouting out and pounding his desk. Macmillan
famously replied: "I should like that to be
translated if he wants to say anything."

Following the technical failures of a British
independent nuclear deterrent with the Blue Streak
missile|Blue Streak and the Blue Steel
missile|Blue Steel projects, Macmillan negotiated
the supply of American Polaris missiles under the
Nassau agreement in December 1962. Previously he
had agreed to base sixty Thor missiles in Britain
under joint control, and since late 1957 the
American McMahon Act had been eased to allow
Britain more access to nuclear technology. These
negotiations were the basis for Peter Cook's
satire of Macmillan in Beyond the Fringe.

Macmillan was a major force in the successful
negotiations leading to Britain, the U.S., and the
Soviet Union signing the Partial Test Ban Treaty
in 1962. His previous attempt to create an
agreement at the May 1960 summit in Paris had
collapsed due to the U-2 Crisis of 1960|Gary
Powers affair.

Britain's application to join the EEC was vetoed
by Charles de Gaulle (29 January 1963), in part
due to his fear that "the end would be a colossal
Atlantic Community dependent on America" and in
part in anger at the Anglo-American nuclear deal.

Britain's balance of payments problems led to the
imposition of a wage freeze in 1961. This caused
the government to lose popularity and led to a
series of by-election defeats. He organised a
major Cabinet change in July 1962 but he continued
to lose support from within his party. During this
time he was quoted, "Greater love hath no man than
this, than to lay down his friends for his life"
suggesting the difficulty of his decisions. He was
also embarrassed by the Profumo Affair of 1963.
Following ill health and surgery he resigned on 18
October 1963. He was succeeded by Alec
Douglas-Home, the foreign secretary. This proved
controversial as it was alleged that Macmillan had
pulled strings and utilised the party's grandees,
nicknamed "The Magic Circle", to ensure that
Butler was not chosen as his successor.

==Retirement==

Macmillan initially refused a peerage and retired
from politics in September 1964. He did, however,
accept the distinction of the Order of Merit from
The Queen. After retiring, he took up the
chairmanship of his family's publishing house
Macmillan Publishers. Over the next twenty years
he made the occasional intervention. Following
Margaret Thatcher's election as leader of the
Conservative Party, Macmillan was found to be
intervening more often as the record of his
premiership came under attack from the monetarists
in the party. In one of his more memorable
contributions he likened Margaret Thatcher's
policy of privatisation to "selling the family
silver". In 1984 he finally accepted a peerage and
was created Earl of Stockton and Viscount
Macmillan of Ovenden. He died at Birch Grove in
Sussex in 1986 at the age of 92 years and 322 days
- the greatest age attained by any British Prime
Minister until it was surpassed by James Callaghan
on 14 February 2005.

==Titles from birth to death==

*Harold Macmillan, Esq (10 February 1894–29
October 1924)
*Harold Macmillan, Esq, MP (29 October
1924–30 May 1929)
*Harold Macmillan, Esq (30 May 1929–4
November 1931)
*Harold Macmillan, Esq, MP (4 November
1931–1942)
*The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan, MP
(1942–26 July 1945)
*The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan (26 July
1945–November 1945)
*The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan, MP
(November 1945–September 1964
*The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan (September
1964–2 April 1976)
*The Right Honourable Sir Harold Macmillan, OM (2
April 1976–24 February 1984)
*The Right Honourable The Earl of Stockton, OM, PC
(24 February 1984–29 December 1986)

==External link==
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/
december/29/newsid_2547000/2547307.stm BBC Harold
Macmillan obituary

==Cabinets==

=== January 1957 - October 1959===
*Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister
*David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
Kilmuir|Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
*Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of
Salisbury|Lord Salisbury: Lord President of the
Council
*Rab Butler: Lord Privy Seal and Secretary of
State for the Home Department
*Peter Thorneycroft: Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Selwyn Lloyd: Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs
*Alan Lennox-Boyd: Secretary of State for the
Colonies
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Secretary of State
for Commonwealth Relations
*Sir David Eccles: President of the Board of Trade
*Charles Hill: Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Minister of Education
*John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel|John
Scott Maclay: Secretary of State for Scotland
*Derick Heathcoat Amory: Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food|Minister of Agriculture
*Iain Macleod: Minister of Labour and National
Service
*Harold Arthur Watkinson: Minister of Transport
and Civil Aviation
*Duncan Edwin Sandys: Minister of Defence
*Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Baron Mills|Lord Mills:
Minister of Power
*Henry Brooke (politician)|Henry Brooke: Minister
of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

Change
*March 1957 - Lord Home succeeds Lord Salisbury as
Lord President, remaining also Commonwealth
Relations Secretary.
*September 1957 - Lord Hailsham succeeds Lord Home
as Lord President, Home remaining Commonwealth
Relations Secretary.  Geoffrey Lloyd succeeds
Hailsham as Minister of Education.  The Chief
Secretary to the Treasury, Reginald Maudling,
enters the Cabinet.
*January 1958 - Derick Heathcoat Amory succeeds
Peter Thorneycroft as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
 John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham|John Hare
succeeds Amory as Minister of Agriculture.

===October 1959 - July 1960===
*Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister
*David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
Kilmuir|Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Lord President of
the Council and Secretary of State for
Commonwealth Relations
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Lord Privy Seal and
Minister of Science
*Derick Heathcoat Amory: Chancellor of the
Exchequer
*Rab Butler: Secretary of State for the Home
Department
*Selwyn Lloyd: Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs
*Iain Macleod: Secretary of State for the Colonies
*Reginald Maudling: President of the Board of
Trade
*Charles Hill: Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
*David Eccles|Sir David Eccles: Secretary of State
for Education|Minister of Education
*Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills|Lord
Mills: Secretary to the Treasury|Chief Secretary
to the Treasury
*Ernest Marples: Minister of Transport
*Duncan Edwin Sandys: Minister of Aviation
*Harold Arthur Watkinson: Secretary of State for
Defence|Minister of Defence
*John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel|John
Scott Maclay: Secretary of State for Scotland
*Edward Heath: Minister of Labour and National
Service
*John Hare: Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Food|Minister of Agriculture
*Henry Brooke (politician)|Henry Brooke: Minister
of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

===July 1960 - October 1961===
*Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister
*David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
Kilmuir|Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Lord President of the
Council and Minister of Science
*Edward Heath: Lord Privy Seal
*Selwyn Lloyd: Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Rab Butler: Secretary of State for the Home
Department
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs
*Iain Macleod: Secretary of State for the Colonies
*Duncan Edwin Sandys: Secretary of State for
Commonwealth Relations
*Reginald Maudling: President of the Board of
Trade
*Charles Hill: Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
*David Eccles|Sir David Eccles: Secretary of State
for Education|Minister of Education
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Minister of Science
*Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills|Lord
Mills: Secretary to the Treasury|Chief Secretary
to the Treasury
*Ernest Marples: Minister of Transport
*Peter Thorneycroft: Minister of Aviation
*Harold Arthur Watkinson: Secretary of State for
Defence|Minister of Defence
*John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel|John
Scott Maclay: Secretary of State for Scotland
*John Hare: Minister of Labour and National
Service
*Christopher Soames: Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food|Minister of Agriculture
*Henry Brooke (politician)|Henry Brooke: Minister
of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

===October 1961 - July 1962===
*Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister
*David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
Kilmuir|Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Lord President of the
Council and Minister of Science
*Edward Heath: Lord Privy Seal
*Selwyn Lloyd: Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Rab Butler: Secretary of State for the Home
Department
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs
*Iain Macleod: Secretary of State for the Colonies
*Duncan Edwin Sandys: Secretary of State for
Commonwealth Relations
*Frederick Erroll: President of the Board of Trade
*Iain Macleod: Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
*David Eccles|Sir David Eccles: Secretary of State
for Education|Minister of Education
*Henry Brooke (politician)|Henry Brooke: Secretary
to the Treasury|Chief Secretary to the Treasury
*Ernest Marples: Minister of Transport
*Peter Thorneycroft: Minister of Aviation
*Harold Arthur Watkinson: Secretary of State for
Defence|Minister of Defence
*John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel|John
Scott Maclay: Secretary of State for Scotland
*John Hare: Minister of Labour and National
Service
*Christopher Soames: Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food|Minister of Agriculture
*Charles Hill: Minister of Housing and Local
Government and Welsh Affairs
*Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills|Lord
Mills: Minister without Portfolio

===July 1962 - October 1963===

In a radical reshuffle dubbed "Night of the Long
Knives (1962)|The Night of the Long Knives",
Macmilland sacked a third of his Cabinet and
instituted many other changes.

*Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister
*Rab Butler: Deputy Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom|Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary
of State
*Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount
Dilhorne|Lord Dilhorne: Lord Chancellor
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Lord President of the
Council and Minister of Science
*Edward Heath: Lord Privy Seal
*Reginald Maudling: Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Henry Brooke (politician)|Henry Brooke: Secretary
of State for the Home Department
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs
*Iain Macleod: Secretary of State for the Colonies
*Duncan Edwin Sandys: Secretary of State for
Commonwealth Relations
*Frederick Erroll: President of the Board of Trade
*Iain Macleod: Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
*Edward Boyle|Sir Edward Boyle: Secretary of State
for Education|Minister of Education
*John Boyd-Carpenter: Secretary to the
Treasury|Chief Secretary to the Treasury
*Ernest Marples: Minister of Transport
*Julian Amery: Minister of Aviation
*Peter Thorneycroft: Secretary of State for
Defence|Minister of Defence
*Michael Noble: Secretary of State for Scotland
*John Hare: Secretary of State for
Employment|Minister of Labour and National Service
*Christopher Soames: Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food|Minister of Agriculture
*Keith Joseph|Sir Keith Joseph: Minister of
Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs
*Enoch Powell: Minister of Health
*William Francis Deedes: Minister without
Portfolio

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The Right Honourable Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st
Earl of Stockton, Order of Merit|OM, Privy
Council|PC (10 February 1894–29 December
1986), nicknamed "Supermac" and "Mac the Knife",
was a United Kingdom|British Conservative Party
(UK)|Conservative politician and Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.

==Early life==

Macmillan was born in Brixton. He was educated at
Eton College|Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford.
He served with distinction in WW I, being wounded
on three occasions. Elected to the United Kingdom
House of Commons|House of Commons in 1924 for
Stockton-on-Tees, he lost his seat in 1929 only to
return in 1931. In the 1930s he was stuck on the
backbenches, his leftish ideas and sharp criticism
of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain serving
to isolate him. In World War II he was part of the
wartime coalition government; he worked with the
Ministry of Supply before being sent to North
Africa in 1942 as British government
representative to the Allies in the Mediterranean.

He returned to England post-war and lost his own
seat in the massive electoral defeat of 1945. He
soon returned to Parliament in a November 1945
by-election for Bromley. When the Conservatives
regained power in 1951 he was Minister of Housing
(October 1951) then Secretary of State for
Defence|Minister of Defence (October 1954) under
Winston Churchill and Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary (April-December
1955) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1955-1957)
under Anthony Eden. When Eden resigned in January
1957 he was succeeded by Macmillan on the 10th
(despite many expecting Rab Butler to succeed
instead) and Macmillan also became leader of the
Conservative Party (22nd).

==Government==

Macmillan brought the monetary concerns of the
exchequer into office - the economy was his prime
concern. However his approach to the economy was
to seek high employment, whereas his treasury
ministers argued that to support sterling required
strict controls on money and hence a rise in
unemployment. Their advice was rejected and in
January 1958 all the Treasury ministers resigned.
Macmillan brushed aside this incident as "a little
local difficulty". 
Macmillan supported the creation of the National
Incomes Commission as a means to institute
controls on income as part of his growth without
inflation policy, a further series of subtle
indicators and controls were also introduced
during his premiership.



Macmillan also took close control of foreign
policy. He worked to narrow the rift post-Suez
Crisis|Suez with the U.S., where his wartime
friendship with Dwight D. Eisenhower was useful,
and the two had a pleasant conference in Bermuda
as early as March 1957. The better relationship
remained after the ascent of John F. Kennedy.
Macmillan also saw the value of a rapproachment
with Europe and sought belated entry to the
European Economic Community (EEC) as well as
exploring the possibility of a European Free Trade
Area (EFTA). In terms of the Empire Macmillan
continued the divestment of the colonies, his
"wind of change" speech (February 1960) indicating
his policy. Ghana and Malaya were granted
independence in 1957, Nigeria in 1960 and Kenya in
1963. However in the Middle East Macmillan ensured
Britain remained a force - intervening over Iraq
in 1958 and 1960 as well as becoming involved in
Oman.

He led the Conservatives to victory in the United
Kingdom general election, 1959|October 1959
general election, increasing his party's majority
from 67 to 107 seats. The election campaign had
been based on the economic improvements achieved,
the slogan "Life's Better Under the Conservatives"
was matched by Macmillan's own remark, "most of
our people have never had it so good" usually
paraphrased as  "You've never had it so good." The
actual growth rate, compared to the rest of
Europe, was weak and marked a relative decline
distorted by high defence expenditure.

Macmillan had a reputation for being unflappable
in public. For example, on September 29, 1960,
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev twice interrupted
a speech by Macmillan at the United Nations by
shouting out and pounding his desk. Macmillan
famously replied: "I should like that to be
translated if he wants to say anything."

Following the technical failures of a British
independent nuclear deterrent with the Blue Streak
missile|Blue Streak and the Blue Steel
missile|Blue Steel projects, Macmillan negotiated
the supply of American Polaris missiles under the
Nassau agreement in December 1962. Previously he
had agreed to base sixty Thor missiles in Britain
under joint control, and since late 1957 the
American McMahon Act had been eased to allow
Britain more access to nuclear technology. These
negotiations were the basis for Peter Cook's
satire of Macmillan in Beyond the Fringe.

Macmillan was a major force in the successful
negotiations leading to Britain, the U.S., and the
Soviet Union signing the Partial Test Ban Treaty
in 1962. His previous attempt to create an
agreement at the May 1960 summit in Paris had
collapsed due to the U-2 Crisis of 1960|Gary
Powers affair.

Britain's application to join the EEC was vetoed
by Charles de Gaulle (29 January 1963), in part
due to his fear that "the end would be a colossal
Atlantic Community dependent on America" and in
part in anger at the Anglo-American nuclear deal.

Britain's balance of payments problems led to the
imposition of a wage freeze in 1961. This caused
the government to lose popularity and led to a
series of by-election defeats. He organised a
major Cabinet change in July 1962 but he continued
to lose support from within his party. During this
time he was quoted, "Greater love hath no man than
this, than to lay down his friends for his life"
suggesting the difficulty of his decisions. He was
also embarrassed by the Profumo Affair of 1963.
Following ill health and surgery he resigned on 18
October 1963. He was succeeded by Alec
Douglas-Home, the foreign secretary. This proved
controversial as it was alleged that Macmillan had
pulled strings and utilised the party's grandees,
nicknamed "The Magic Circle", to ensure that
Butler was not chosen as his successor.

==Retirement==

Macmillan initially refused a peerage and retired
from politics in September 1964. He did, however,
accept the distinction of the Order of Merit from
The Queen. After retiring, he took up the
chairmanship of his family's publishing house
Macmillan Publishers. Over the next twenty years
he made the occasional intervention. Following
Margaret Thatcher's election as leader of the
Conservative Party, Macmillan was found to be
intervening more often as the record of his
premiership came under attack from the monetarists
in the party. In one of his more memorable
contributions he likened Margaret Thatcher's
policy of privatisation to "selling the family
silver". In 1984 he finally accepted a peerage and
was created Earl of Stockton and Viscount
Macmillan of Ovenden. He died at Birch Grove in
Sussex in 1986 at the age of 92 years and 322 days
- the greatest age attained by any British Prime
Minister until it was surpassed by James Callaghan
on 14 February 2005.

==Titles from birth to death==

*Harold Macmillan, Esq (10 February 1894–29
October 1924)
*Harold Macmillan, Esq, MP (29 October
1924–30 May 1929)
*Harold Macmillan, Esq (30 May 1929–4
November 1931)
*Harold Macmillan, Esq, MP (4 November
1931–1942)
*The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan, MP
(1942–26 July 1945)
*The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan (26 July
1945–November 1945)
*The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan, MP
(November 1945–September 1964
*The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan (September
1964–2 April 1976)
*The Right Honourable Sir Harold Macmillan, OM (2
April 1976–24 February 1984)
*The Right Honourable The Earl of Stockton, OM, PC
(24 February 1984–29 December 1986)

==External link==
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/
december/29/newsid_2547000/2547307.stm BBC Harold
Macmillan obituary

==Cabinets==

=== January 1957 - October 1959===
*Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister
*David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
Kilmuir|Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
*Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of
Salisbury|Lord Salisbury: Lord President of the
Council
*Rab Butler: Lord Privy Seal and Secretary of
State for the Home Department
*Peter Thorneycroft: Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Selwyn Lloyd: Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs
*Alan Lennox-Boyd: Secretary of State for the
Colonies
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Secretary of State
for Commonwealth Relations
*Sir David Eccles: President of the Board of Trade
*Charles Hill: Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Minister of Education
*John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel|John
Scott Maclay: Secretary of State for Scotland
*Derick Heathcoat Amory: Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food|Minister of Agriculture
*Iain Macleod: Minister of Labour and National
Service
*Harold Arthur Watkinson: Minister of Transport
and Civil Aviation
*Duncan Edwin Sandys: Minister of Defence
*Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Baron Mills|Lord Mills:
Minister of Power
*Henry Brooke (politician)|Henry Brooke: Minister
of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

Change
*March 1957 - Lord Home succeeds Lord Salisbury as
Lord President, remaining also Commonwealth
Relations Secretary.
*September 1957 - Lord Hailsham succeeds Lord Home
as Lord President, Home remaining Commonwealth
Relations Secretary.  Geoffrey Lloyd succeeds
Hailsham as Minister of Education.  The Chief
Secretary to the Treasury, Reginald Maudling,
enters the Cabinet.
*January 1958 - Derick Heathcoat Amory succeeds
Peter Thorneycroft as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
 John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham|John Hare
succeeds Amory as Minister of Agriculture.

===October 1959 - July 1960===
*Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister
*David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
Kilmuir|Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Lord President of
the Council and Secretary of State for
Commonwealth Relations
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Lord Privy Seal and
Minister of Science
*Derick Heathcoat Amory: Chancellor of the
Exchequer
*Rab Butler: Secretary of State for the Home
Department
*Selwyn Lloyd: Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs
*Iain Macleod: Secretary of State for the Colonies
*Reginald Maudling: President of the Board of
Trade
*Charles Hill: Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
*David Eccles|Sir David Eccles: Secretary of State
for Education|Minister of Education
*Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills|Lord
Mills: Secretary to the Treasury|Chief Secretary
to the Treasury
*Ernest Marples: Minister of Transport
*Duncan Edwin Sandys: Minister of Aviation
*Harold Arthur Watkinson: Secretary of State for
Defence|Minister of Defence
*John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel|John
Scott Maclay: Secretary of State for Scotland
*Edward Heath: Minister of Labour and National
Service
*John Hare: Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Food|Minister of Agriculture
*Henry Brooke (politician)|Henry Brooke: Minister
of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

===July 1960 - October 1961===
*Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister
*David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
Kilmuir|Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Lord President of the
Council and Minister of Science
*Edward Heath: Lord Privy Seal
*Selwyn Lloyd: Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Rab Butler: Secretary of State for the Home
Department
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs
*Iain Macleod: Secretary of State for the Colonies
*Duncan Edwin Sandys: Secretary of State for
Commonwealth Relations
*Reginald Maudling: President of the Board of
Trade
*Charles Hill: Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
*David Eccles|Sir David Eccles: Secretary of State
for Education|Minister of Education
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Minister of Science
*Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills|Lord
Mills: Secretary to the Treasury|Chief Secretary
to the Treasury
*Ernest Marples: Minister of Transport
*Peter Thorneycroft: Minister of Aviation
*Harold Arthur Watkinson: Secretary of State for
Defence|Minister of Defence
*John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel|John
Scott Maclay: Secretary of State for Scotland
*John Hare: Minister of Labour and National
Service
*Christopher Soames: Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food|Minister of Agriculture
*Henry Brooke (politician)|Henry Brooke: Minister
of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

===October 1961 - July 1962===
*Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister
*David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
Kilmuir|Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Lord President of the
Council and Minister of Science
*Edward Heath: Lord Privy Seal
*Selwyn Lloyd: Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Rab Butler: Secretary of State for the Home
Department
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs
*Iain Macleod: Secretary of State for the Colonies
*Duncan Edwin Sandys: Secretary of State for
Commonwealth Relations
*Frederick Erroll: President of the Board of Trade
*Iain Macleod: Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
*David Eccles|Sir David Eccles: Secretary of State
for Education|Minister of Education
*Henry Brooke (politician)|Henry Brooke: Secretary
to the Treasury|Chief Secretary to the Treasury
*Ernest Marples: Minister of Transport
*Peter Thorneycroft: Minister of Aviation
*Harold Arthur Watkinson: Secretary of State for
Defence|Minister of Defence
*John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel|John
Scott Maclay: Secretary of State for Scotland
*John Hare: Minister of Labour and National
Service
*Christopher Soames: Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food|Minister of Agriculture
*Charles Hill: Minister of Housing and Local
Government and Welsh Affairs
*Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills|Lord
Mills: Minister without Portfolio

===July 1962 - October 1963===

In a radical reshuffle dubbed "Night of the Long
Knives (1962)|The Night of the Long Knives",
Macmilland sacked a third of his Cabinet and
instituted many other changes.

*Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister
*Rab Butler: Deputy Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom|Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary
of State
*Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount
Dilhorne|Lord Dilhorne: Lord Chancellor
*Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St
Marylebone|Lord Hailsham: Lord President of the
Council and Minister of Science
*Edward Heath: Lord Privy Seal
*Reginald Maudling: Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Henry Brooke (politician)|Henry Brooke: Secretary
of State for the Home Department
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs
*Iain Macleod: Secretary of State for the Colonies
*Duncan Edwin Sandys: Secretary of State for
Commonwealth Relations
*Frederick Erroll: President of the Board of Trade
*Iain Macleod: Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster
*Edward Boyle|Sir Edward Boyle: Secretary of State
for Education|Minister of Education
*John Boyd-Carpenter: Secretary to the
Treasury|Chief Secretary to the Treasury
*Ernest Marples: Minister of Transport
*Julian Amery: Minister of Aviation
*Peter Thorneycroft: Secretary of State for
Defence|Minister of Defence
*Michael Noble: Secretary of State for Scotland
*John Hare: Secretary of State for
Employment|Minister of Labour and National Service
*Christopher Soames: Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food|Minister of Agriculture
*Keith Joseph|Sir Keith Joseph: Minister of
Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs
*Enoch Powell: Minister of Health
*William Francis Deedes: Minister without
Portfolio

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succession box | title=Secretary of State for Air
| before=Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount
Thurso|Sir Archibald Sinclair | after=William
Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate|The Viscount
Stansgate | years=1945
succession box | title=Minister of Defence |
before= Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of
Tunis|Earl Alexander of Tunis | after=Selwyn Lloyd
| years=1954–1955
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary | before=Anthony
Eden|Sir Anthony Eden | after=Selwyn Lloyd |
years=1955
succession box | title=Chancellor of the Exchequer
| before=Rab Butler | after=Peter Thorneycroft |
years=1955–1957
succession box two to two | title1=Conservative
Party (UK)|Leader of the British Conservative
Party | title2=Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom|Prime Minister | before=Anthony Eden|Sir
Anthony Eden | after=Alec Douglas-Home|The Earl of
Home | years1=1957–1963 |
years2=1957–1963
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succession box | title=Earl of Stockton |
before=New Creation | after=Alexander Macmillan,
2nd Earl of Stockton|Alexander Macmillan | years=
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