Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894–1986) was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963. Seriously wounded during the Battle of the Somme in World War I, Macmillan entered Parliament in 1924, authoring The Middle Way (1938), which advocated pragmatic state intervention to prevent mass unemployment.

Assuming the premiership following the humiliation of the 1956 Suez Crisis, Macmillan restored national confidence and rebuilt the 'Special Relationship' with US President John F. Kennedy. Presiding over post-war economic affluence, he famously declared in 1957: 'Most of our people have never had it so good'. In 1960, he delivered his prophetic 'Wind of Change' speech to the South African Parliament, signaling Britain's peaceful decolonization of Africa, and negotiated the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.