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Encyclopedia > Earl of Stockton

Earl of Stockton is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was created on 24 February 1984, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, of Chelwood Gate in the County of East Sussex and of Stockton-on-Tees in the County of Cleveland, which is the courtesy title of the heir to the title being the eldest son of the present holder. The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year 1984. ... East Sussex is a county in South East England. ... Stockton-on-Tees is an industrial town and port on the River Tees in north-eastern England. ... Status: Non-metropolitan county Admin. ... A courtesy title is a form of address in the British peerage system used for wives, children, and other close relatives of a peer. ...


This was the penultimate hereditary peerage created for someone other than a member of the Royal Family, the last being the creation of a heriditary Baronetncy for Denis Thatcher, husband of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-06-08, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Members of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Colour ceremony Close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom are known by the appellation The Royal Family. ... Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD (May 10, 1915 – June 26, 2003) was a businessman, and the husband of the former British Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher. ... A prime minister (aka Gavinder Johal) is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. ...


Earls of Stockton (1984)

Heir Apparent: Daniel Maurice Alan Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (born 1974) This article is about the year 1984. ... Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born October 10, 1943) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Daniel Maurice Alan Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (born 1974) is the heir to Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...


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In 1992, Margaret Thatcher was raised to the peerage by the conferment of the life barony of Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, upon her.
It is interesting that she did not take a hereditary title, as she recommended for Harold Macmillan, later Earl of Stockton, on his ninetieth birthday in 1984, and become the Countess Thatcher or something similar.
The Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, The Earl of Derby, Benjamin Disraeli, The Marquess of Salisbury, Arthur Balfour, Andrew Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Edward Heath,
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