Up for auction "Member of Parliament" Maurice Macmillan Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1965. 

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Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount

Macmillan of Ovenden (27 January 1921 – 10 March 1984),

was a British Conservative Party politician

and Member of Parliament. He

was the only son of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who was Prime

Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Macmillan was

the only son of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of

Stockton, and Lady Dorothy Cavendish,

daughter of Victor

Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.

He served with the Sussex Yeomanry in

Europe in the Second World War. Like his

father, he was chairman of Macmillan Publishers, as

well as a director of two news agencies. Macmillan contested Seaham at

the 1945

election, Lincoln in 1951 and Wakefield at a 1954 by-election. He

served on Kensington Borough Council from

1949 to 1953, then was elected MP for Halifax at

the 1955 general

election but lost this seat in 1964.

He was then elected for Farnham in 1966.

This latter seat became South West

Surrey at the 1983

election. He served as Economic Secretary to the

Treasury (1963–64) under Alec Douglas-Home, and as Chief Secretary to the

Treasury (1970–72), Secretary of State for

Employment (1972–73) and Paymaster General (1973–74) under Edward Heath. He was made a Privy

Counsellor in 1972.