Life peerages created by Harold Macmillan (1958–63)
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 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.
Nicknamed 'Supermac' and known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability, Macmillan achieved notoriety before the Second World War as a Tory radical and critic of appeasement. Rising to high office as a protegé of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, he believed in the essential decency of the post-war settlement and the necessity of a mixed economy, and in his premiership pursued corporatist policies to develop the domestic market as the engine of growth. As a One Nation Tory of the Disraelian tradition, haunted by memories of the Great Depression, he championed a Keynesian strategy of public investment to maintain demand, winning a second term in 1959 on an electioneering budget. Benefiting from favourable international conditions, he presided over an age of affluence, marked by low unemployment and high if uneven growth. In his immortal Bedford speech of July 1957 he correctly told the nation they had 'never had it so good', but warned of the dangers of inflation, summing up the fragile prosperity of the 1950s.
Date of creation |
Name |
Title |
Territorial qualification |
Date of extinction (if applicable) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 August 1958 |
William Jocelyn Ian Fraser |
Baron Fraser of Lonsdale |
of Regent's Park in the County of London |
19 December 1974 |
2 August 1958 |
Victor John Collins |
Baron Stonham |
of Earl Stonham in the County of Suffolk |
22 December 1971 |
4 August 1958 |
Charles John Geddes |
Baron Geddes of Epsom |
of Epsom in the County of Surrey |
2 May 1963 |
5 August 1958 |
John Sebastian Bach Stopford |
Baron Stopford of Fallowfield |
of Hindley Green in the County Palatine of Lancaster |
6 March 1961 |
6 August 1958 |
Daniel Granville-West |
Baron Granville-West |
of Pontypool in the County of Monmouth |
23 September 1984 |
7 August 1958 |
Stephen James Lake Taylor |
Baron Taylor |
of Harlow in the County of Essex |
1 February 1988 |
8 August 1958 |
Barbara Frances Wright |
Baroness Wootton of Abinger |
of Abinger Common in the County of Surrey |
11 July 1988 |
11 August 1958 |
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton |
Baron Shackleton |
of Burley in the County of Southampton |
22 September 1994 |
18 August 1958 |
Edward Francis Twining |
Baron Twining |
of Tanganyika and of Godalming in the County of Surrey |
21 July 1967 |
22 August 1958 |
Robert John Graham Boothby |
Baron Boothby |
of Buchan and Rattray Head in the County of Aberdeen |
16 July 1986 |
22 September 1958 |
Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading |
Baroness Swanborough |
of Swanborough in the County of Sussex |
22 May 1971 |
24 September 1958 |
Victor Ferrier Noel-Paton |
Baron Ferrier |
of Culter in the County of Lanark |
4 June 1992 |
26 September 1958 |
Katharine Elliot |
Baroness Elliot of Harwood |
of Rulewater in the County of Roxburgh |
3 January 1994 |
30 September 1958 |
Hubert Lister Parker |
Baron Parker of Waddington |
of Lincoln's Inn in the Borough of Holborn |
15 September 1972 |
6 October 1958 |
Mary Curzon, Baroness Ravensdale |
Baroness Ravensdale |
of Kedleston in the County of Derby |
9 February 1966 |
14 February 1959 |
Hartley William Shawcross |
Baron Shawcross |
of Friston in the County of Sussex |
10 July 2003 |
17 February 1959 |
Edwin Noel Plowden |
Baron Plowden |
of Plowden in the County of Salop |
15 February 2001 |
19 February 1959 |
Eric John Francis James |
Baron James of Rusholme |
of Fallowfield in the County Palatine of Lancaster |
16 May 1992 |
16 June 1959 |
Lionel Charles Robbins |
Baron Robbins |
of Clare Market in the City of Westminster |
15 May 1984 |
2 November 1959 |
Herbert Stanley Morrison |
Baron Morrison of Lambeth |
of Lambeth in the County of London |
6 March 1965 |
3 November 1959 |
Jack Nixon Browne |
Baron Craigton |
of Renfield in the County of the City of Glasgow |
28 July 1993 |
16 December 1959 |
Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh |
Baroness Horsbrugh |
of Horsbrugh in the County of Peebles |
6 December 1969 |
28 January 1960 |
Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton |
Baron Dalton |
of Forest and Frith in the County Palatine of Durham |
13 February 1962 |
30 January 1960 |
Alfred Charles Bossom |
Baron Bossom |
of Maidstone in the County of Kent |
4 September 1965 |
16 May 1960 |
Richard Gardiner Casey |
Baron Casey |
of Berwick in the State of Victoria and Commonwealth of Australia and of the City of Westminster |
17 June 1976 |
2 February 1961 |
Thomas Williams |
Baron Williams of Barnburgh |
of Barnburgh in the West Riding of the County of York |
29 March 1967 |
4 February 1961 |
Edith Clara Summerskill |
Baroness Summerskill |
of Ken Wood in the County of London |
4 February 1980 |
7 February 1961 |
William Hughes |
Baron Hughes |
of Hawkhill in the County of the City of Dundee |
31 December 1999 |
8 February 1961 |
James Mortimer Peddie |
Baron Peddie |
of the City and County of Kingston upon Hull |
13 April 1978 |
9 February 1961 |
George Samuel Lindgren |
Baron Lindgren |
of Welwyn Garden City in the County of Hertford |
8 September 1971 |
10 February 1961 |
Henry David Leonard George Walston |
Baron Walston |
of Newton in the County of Cambridge |
29 May 1991 |
16 February 1961 |
Cuthbert James McCall Alport |
Baron Alport |
of Colchester in the County of Essex |
28 October 1998 |
21 February 1961 |
Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson |
Baron Molson |
of High Peak in the County of Derby |
13 October 1991 |
2 June 1961 |
Geoffrey Francis Fisher |
Baron Fisher of Lambeth |
of Lambeth in the County of London |
15 September 1972 |
28 June 1961 |
Alfred Robens |
Baron Robens of Woldingham |
of Woldingham in the County of Surrey |
27 June 1999 |
11 July 1961 |
Alexander Moncrieff Coutanche |
Baron Coutanche |
of Saint Brélade in the Island of Jersey |
18 December 1973 |
12 April 1962 |
Elaine Frances Burton |
Baroness Burton |
of Coventry in the County of Warwick |
6 October 1991 |
13 April 1962 |
Edward Francis Williams |
Baron Francis-Williams |
of Abinger in the County of Surrey |
5 June 1970 |
16 April 1962 |
Alexander Robertus Todd |
Baron Todd |
of Trumpington in the County of Cambridge |
10 January 1997 |
3 May 1962 |
Alan John Sainsbury |
Baron Sainsbury |
of Drury Lane in the Borough of Holborn |
21 October 1998 |
10 May 1962 |
Oliver Shewell Franks |
Baron Franks |
of Headington in the County of Oxford |
15 October 1992 |
11 May 1962 |
Arthur Joseph Champion |
Baron Champion |
of Pontypridd in the County of Glamorgan |
2 March 1985 |
14 May 1962 |
Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson |
Baron Ilford |
of Bury in the County Palatine of Lancaster |
20 August 1974 |
15 May 1962 |
Thomas Williamson |
Baron Williamson |
of Eccleston in the Borough of Saint Helens |
27 February 1983 |
31 January 1963 |
Eric Cyril Boyd Edwards |
Baron Chelmer |
of Margaretting in the County of Essex |
3 March 1997 |
13 June 1963 |
Charles Hill |
Baron Hill of Luton |
of Harpenden in the County of Hertford |
22 August 1989 |
9 July 1963 |
Alick Drummond Buchanan-Smith |
Baron Balerno |
of Currie in the County of Midlothian |
28 July 1984 |