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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM ( 10 February 1894 - 29 December 1986), nicknameA nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or thing's real name, (for example, Nick is short for Nicholas . As a concept, it is distinct from both pseudonym and stage name, although there may be overlap in td " Supermac " and " Mac the KnifeFor the song, see Mack the Knife. Mac the Knife" was a nickname of Harold Macmillan, former British Prime Minister. Mac the Knife" was a nickname of Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense of the United States. Mac the Knife is the pen name (inspired" was a BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United KingdomIn the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. According to custom, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet (which he or she heads) are re from 1957 to 1963.
1 Early life
Macmillan was born in Brixton. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford. He served with distinction in WW I, being wounded on three occasions. Elected to the 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 served 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 after the massive electoral defeat of 1945. When the Conservatives regained power in 1951 he was minister of housing (October 1951) then minister of defence (October 1954) under Winston Churchill and 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).
