"Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born 10 October 1943) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the eldest son of the Conservative politician Maurice Macmillan and grandson of prime minister Harold Macmillan. Lord Stockton was educated at Eton College, the University of Paris, and at Strathclyde University. He was a member of the European Parliament for South West England from 1999 to 2004. He was one of the hereditary peers to have been excluded from the House of Lords. He inherited his peerage from his grandfather, Harold"
"H. R. MacMillan Harvey Reginald (""H.R."") MacMillan, (September 9, 1885 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian forester, forestry industrialist, wartime administrator, and philanthropist. Born in Pine Orchard, Whitchurch Township, Ontario (today part of Whitchurch–Stouffville), he attended school in Bogarttown, Sharon, and Aurora. He graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College (then part of the University of Toronto) in 1906 with an honours degree in biology. He obtained a Master of Science degree in Forestry at Yale University in 1908. In 1912, he was appointed first Chief Forester of British Columbia , and in that capacity he established the British Columbia"
"Tale"", was published in 1952. Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan, (20 February 1873 – 5 September 1952) was a Scottish advocate, judge, Parliamentarian and civil servant. He was born in Glasgow, the son of the Rev Hugh Macmillan DD FRSE (1833-1903) and Jane Patison (1833-1922). His father was minister of St Peter's Free Church in Glasgow. The family moved to 70 Union Street in Greenock in 1878. Hugh was educated at Collegiate School, Greenock from 1878, then studied at the University of Edinburgh (M.A. 1st class honours in philosophy, 1893 Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland Scholarship)"
"McMillan ran the grain and feed business established by his father at Rigaud, later building and operating a sawmill there. He died in Rigaud at the age of 55. Hugh McMillan (politician) Hugh McMillan (December 19, 1839 – October 31, 1895) was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He represented Vaudreuil in the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative member from 1883 to 1891 and from 1892 to 1893. McMillan was born in Rigaud, Lower Canada, the son of Donald McMillan and Olympe Mongenais. He served on the county council and was a captain in the local militia."
"Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan, (20 February 1873 – 5 September 1952) was a Scottish advocate, judge, Parliamentarian and civil servant. He was born in Glasgow, the son of the Rev Hugh Macmillan DD FRSE (1833-1903) and Jane Patison (1833-1922). His father was minister of St Peter's Free Church in Glasgow. The family moved to 70 Union Street in Greenock in 1878. Hugh was educated at Collegiate School, Greenock from 1878, then studied at the University of Edinburgh (M.A. 1st class honours in philosophy, 1893 Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland Scholarship) and the University of Glasgow"
"Thomas C. MacMillan (politician) Thomas C. MacMillan (October 4, 1850 – December 13, 1935) was a Scottish American politician, Congregationalist, and newspaper reporter from Wigtownshire, Scotland. MacMillan attended schools in Chicago, Illinois, then began a long career as a reporter for the ""Chicago Inter Ocean"". He served eight years in the Illinois General Assembly and was active in church affairs. Thomas C. MacMillan was born in Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland, on October 4, 1850. MacMillan was a relative of US Senator James McMillan and was the first cousin, once removed, of Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan. He came with his parents James"
"Malcolm Macmillan Malcolm Kenneth Macmillan (21 August 1913 – 17 November 1978) was a Scottish Labour Party politician and journalist. At the 1935 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Western Isles. He was re-elected at the next seven general elections, serving as MP for 35 years before losing his seat at the 1970 general election to the Scottish National Party's Donald Stewart. In 1972, Macmillan was expelled from the Labour Party after disagreement over the selection of his replacement as Labour candidate, Andrew Wilson. Macmillan stood as a United Labour Party candidate in the"
"to the construction of the 19th Street and Broadway Bridge as relief projects during the Great Depression as well as the C. P. Bridge at Borden. He did not run in the 1935 federal election. MacMillan died of a heart attack in a Vancouver, British Columbia, hotel on April 7, 1948. Frank MacMillan Frank Roland MacMillan (May 15, 1882 – April 7, 1948) was a prominent businessman and politician in Saskatoon in central Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Toronto with his family at the age of three. He married in Toronto and moved to"
"Edinburgh on 24 May 1903 and is buried in Dean Cemetery. The grave lies in the first northern extension, on its southern wall, backing onto the original cemetery. In 1859 he married Jane Pattison (1833-1922), second daughter of William Pattison of Williamfield. Their children included Hugh, who later became Baron Macmillan, a law lord, and five daughters. Hugh Macmillan (minister) Rev Hugh Macmillan FRSE FSA DD LLD (1833-1903) was a 19th century Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland who served as their Moderator of the General Assembly in 1897. He was a prolific author on theological subjects and"
"building a ""new town"" between Glasgow and Stirling. From 1955 to 1980, he also chaired the Executive Committee of Erskine Hospital which had been created as a hospital and care home for ex-service men and women in the First World War. Other voluntary work involved him as Chairman of the Scottish Police Dependants' Fund and the City of Glasgow Council of Social Service. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Law (LLD) by Glasgow University in 1969. MacMillan died in a car accident on 21 January 1986, just two weeks after his eighty-ninth birthday. He is buried against the north"
"their nadir in 1843 when McMillan's colleague Macalister was killed by an Aborigine. Historian Paul Bartrop states that McMillan retaliated by organising an armed assault on the Kurnai, including the massacre of between 60 and 150 indigenous Australians at Warrigal Creek. Notoriously, McMillan kept a hessian bag of human skulls for some time after the event. In 1857 McMillan married a local woman, Christina MacDougald. They had two sons. From October 1859 to November 1860 he was a member of the Legislative Assembly for South Gippsland, less than a decade after Victoria was first declared a separate colony. His properties"
"until he lost his seat in the 1955 election. MacMillan was named the province's lieutenant governor on November 22, 1957 but died before being sworn in. William J. P. MacMillan William Joseph Parnell MacMillan (March 24, 1881 – December 7, 1957) was a physician and Prince Edward Island politician. Born in Clermont, MacMillan was a graduate of Prince of Wales College and the McGill University Faculty of Medicine. After running a medical practice for several years, MacMillan entered politics in 1923 winning a seat in the provincial legislative assembly as a Conservative. In 1932 he became the province's first minister"
"Never So Good Never So Good is a 2008 play by Howard Brenton, which portrays the life and career of Harold Macmillan, a 20th-century Conservative British politician who served as Prime Minister (1957–1963). It was first performed in the Lyttelton auditorium of the National Theatre, London, on 26 March 2008; previews began on 17 March 2008. The play is divided into four acts, covering Macmillan's early life and military experience in World War I; his involvement in British politics during the descent into World War II; the Suez Crisis, during which he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; and his"
"Harold Macmillan"". In October 1942 Harold Nicolson recorded Macmillan as predicting ""extreme socialism"" after the war. Macmillan nearly resigned when Oliver Stanley was appointed Secretary of State in November 1942, as he would no longer be the spokesman in the Commons as he had been under Cranborne. Brendan Bracken advised him not to quit. After Harry Crookshank had refused the job, Macmillan attained real power and Cabinet rank late in 1942 as British Minister Resident at Algiers in the Mediterranean, recently liberated in Operation Torch. He reported directly to the Prime Minister instead of to the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden."
"unsuccessful attempts there in 1925 and 1926. MacMillan was re-elected in 1935 and served a complete term in the 18th Canadian Parliament. In the 1945 election, MacMillan was defeated by Alexander Malcolm Nicholson of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. MacMillan died at a hospital in Wadena in 1956. John Angus MacMillan John Angus MacMillan (27 March 1889 – 12 August 1956) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Nova Scotia and became a barrister. MacMillan attended Dalhousie University. He became mayor of Wadena, Saskatchewan in 1917 and that same year was elected"
"John Hugh MacMillan John Hugh MacMillan III (February 28, 1928 - April 23, 2008) was an American billionaire businessman. He was born on February 28, 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of John H. MacMillan, Jr. and Marion Dickson, and grew up in Wayzata, Minnesota. He was educated at the Blake School, Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts, West High School, and the University of Minnesota. In 1955, MacMillan started working for Cargill as a grain merchant and held positions in Great Falls, Montana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Minneapolis. In 2007, ""Forbes"" estimated his net worth at $1.7 billion. His first"
"Hugh Macmillan (minister) Rev Hugh Macmillan FRSE FSA DD LLD (1833-1903) was a 19th century Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland who served as their Moderator of the General Assembly in 1897. He was a prolific author on theological subjects and the relationship between God and Nature. His most popular book Bible Teachings in Nature ran to 15 editions in both UK and USA and translated into several languages. He was born on 17 September 1833 in Aberfeldy the eldest of nine children of Margaret (née Macfarlane) and Alexander Macmillan, a merchant. He attended school in Aberfeldy then"
"was unseated. In 1873, he was named a judge in the court for Haldimand County. Macmillan died at the age of 66 in London, Ontario while still a judge. Duncan Macmillan (Canadian politician) Duncan Macmillan (February 11, 1837 – April 21, 1903) was a Canadian lawyer, judge and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Middlesex East in the House of Commons of Canada from 1875 to 1887 as a Liberal-Conservative member. He was born in London Township, Upper Canada, the son of William Macmillan, and was educated at Queen's University. Macmillan studied law with Sir John A. Macdonald and"
"John McMillan (Ontario politician) John McMillan (July 24, 1824 – October 31, 1901) was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Huron South in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member in 1883 and from 1887 to 1900. He was born in Kirkconnel, Dumfriesshire, Scotland in 1824 and came to Huron County in Canada West with his brother in 1843. He purchased land from the Canada Company and began farming on it, raising and selling beef cattle and Clydesdale horses. In 1880, he was appointed to the Ontario agricultural commission, which prepared a report that described"
"Harold MacMichael Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael (15 October 1882 – 19 September 1969) was a British colonial administrator. Educated at Bedford School, MacMichael graduated with a first from Magdalene College, Cambridge. After passing his civil service exam, he entered the service of the British Empire in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He then served in the Blue Nile province until 1915 when he became a senior inspector of Khartoum province, rising to the position of civil secretary in 1926. In 1933 he became Governor of Tanganyika until 1937. The next year he became High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine and"
"February 1974 general election, but came fourth, polling only 6.8% of the vote while the SNP substantially increased their majority. Malcolm Macmillan Malcolm Kenneth Macmillan (21 August 1913 – 17 November 1978) was a Scottish Labour Party politician and journalist. At the 1935 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Western Isles. He was re-elected at the next seven general elections, serving as MP for 35 years before losing his seat at the 1970 general election to the Scottish National Party's Donald Stewart. In 1972, Macmillan was expelled from the Labour Party after disagreement over"
"Thomas McMillan (Ontario politician) Thomas McMillan (March 18, 1864 – June 7, 1932) was a Canadian politician and farmer. McMillan ran and was narrowly defeated as a Laurier Liberal candidate in the 1917 federal election, losing by less than 600 votes. In 1919, he ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, but received only eight votes in the leadership convention. He ran as a Liberal candidate in the 1921 federal election, but lost by 44 votes. He was elected the Member of Parliament for Huron South in the 1925 election, and re-elected in the 1926 and 1930 elections."
"by his wife, Ethel McMillan, and their two sons. Two years after his death, his widow became a Member of Parliament for , also representing the Labour Party. Gervan McMillan David Gervan McMillan (26 February 1904 – 20 February 1951), known as Gervan McMillan, was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party, and a medical practitioner. McMillan was born in 1904 in New Plymouth, the eldest child of Annie Gertrude Pearce and David McMillan, a dairy farmer near Stratford. He received his secondary education at Stratford Technical High School, where he was dux. With the help of the Taranaki"
"Hugh McMillan (politician) Hugh McMillan (December 19, 1839 – October 31, 1895) was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He represented Vaudreuil in the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative member from 1883 to 1891 and from 1892 to 1893. McMillan was born in Rigaud, Lower Canada, the son of Donald McMillan and Olympe Mongenais. He served on the county council and was a captain in the local militia. In 1862, he married Agnes Mongenais, the daughter of Jean-Baptiste Mongenais, who was then representing Vaudreuil in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. From 1865 to 1873,"
"He died in office in 1932. Thomas McMillan (Ontario politician) Thomas McMillan (March 18, 1864 – June 7, 1932) was a Canadian politician and farmer. McMillan ran and was narrowly defeated as a Laurier Liberal candidate in the 1917 federal election, losing by less than 600 votes. In 1919, he ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, but received only eight votes in the leadership convention. He ran as a Liberal candidate in the 1921 federal election, but lost by 44 votes. He was elected the Member of Parliament for Huron South in the 1925 election, and re-elected"
"Jr. in 1896, resulting in the creation of an American company, Macmillan Publishing, also called the Macmillan Company. Even with the split of the American company from its parent company in England, George Brett, Jr. and Harold Macmillan remained close personal friends. Macmillan Publishers re-entered the American market in 1954 under the name St. Martin's Press. After retiring from politics in 1964, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan became chairman of the company, serving until his death in December 1986. He had been with the family firm as a junior partner from 1920 to 1940 (when he"
"famous MP for Bromley, serving from the 1945 by-election until his retirement in 1964, when he was succeeded by John Hunt. Hunt, on the left of the Conservative party, held the seat (renamed Ravensbourne in 1974) until 1997. Bromley (UK Parliament constituency) Bromley is a former borough constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The most famous MP for the constituency was Harold Macmillan, who served as Prime Minister (1957–1963). 1918-1945: The Borough of Bromley, and the Urban"
"received a Master of Arts degree from Illinois College in 1885 and a Legum Doctor from Knox College in 1911. In his free time, he enjoyed writing, walking, and studying history. He died on December 13, 1935. Thomas C. MacMillan (politician) Thomas C. MacMillan (October 4, 1850 – December 13, 1935) was a Scottish American politician, Congregationalist, and newspaper reporter from Wigtownshire, Scotland. MacMillan attended schools in Chicago, Illinois, then began a long career as a reporter for the ""Chicago Inter Ocean"". He served eight years in the Illinois General Assembly and was active in church affairs. Thomas C. MacMillan"
"John Angus MacMillan John Angus MacMillan (27 March 1889 – 12 August 1956) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Nova Scotia and became a barrister. MacMillan attended Dalhousie University. He became mayor of Wadena, Saskatchewan in 1917 and that same year was elected a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the Wadena provincial riding. He served in that legislature until his defeat in the 1921 provincial election. He was first elected to Parliament at the Mackenzie riding in a by-election on 23 October 1933, after two previous"
"Hugh MacDonald (Scottish politician) Hugh MacDonald (11 July 1929 – 3 December 2013), also known as Uisdean MacDonald, was a Scottish nationalist activist. Born in the Possilpark area of Glasgow to parents who both worked in bottling factories, MacDonald learned Gaelic at night school at a young age. He worked initially as an electrical engineer, then later as an advertising salesman, first for the ""Evening Citizen"", then for the ""Glasgow Herald"" group. MacDonald joined the Scottish National Party (SNP), for which he stood unsuccessfully in Glasgow Maryhill at the 1966 general election, taking 11.5% of the vote. He worked with"
"John H. MacMillan Sr. John Hugh MacMillan Sr. (1869 – October 20, 1944) was an American businessman, President of Cargill from 1909 to 1936. John Hugh MacMillan was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the son of Duncan McMillan, a director of the State Bank of La Crosse, and Mary Jane McCrea. His father's grand house was opposite a similarly grand house owned by William W. Cargill, and the offspring of both families played together as children. Aged 15, MacMillan started work at the State Bank of La Crosse, where his father was a director. On the death of his father-in-law,"
"weeks earlier. His estate was valued for probate at £18,201 (around £250,000 at 2016 prices). Iain Macleod Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Research Department before entering Parliament in 1950. He was an outstanding orator and debater, and was soon appointed Minister of Health, later serving as Minister of Labour. He served an important term as Secretary of State for the Colonies under Harold Macmillan in the early 1960s, overseeing"
"to join in with Colonel Josiah Wedgwood singing ""Rule, Britannia!"" in the House of Commons Chamber. Macmillan at last attained office by serving in the wartime coalition government as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply from 1940. Channon commented (29 May 1940) that there was ""some amusement over Harold Macmillan's so obvious enjoyment of his new position"". Macmillan's job was to provide armaments and other equipment to the British Army and Royal Air Force. He travelled up and down the country to co-ordinate production, working with some success under Lord Beaverbrook to increase the supply and quality of"