John Victor Macmillan

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DD (1877–1956) was the fifth

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in the modern era who was later

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. Born into a publishing family (he was an uncle of Prime Minister

Harold Macmillan Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Caricatured as "Supermac", he ...

), he was educated at

Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. Eton may also refer to: Places *Eton, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England * Eton, Georgia, a town in the United States * Éton, a commune in the Meuse dep ...

and

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, where he was awarded 1st Class Honours in Modern History. From 1904 to 1915 he was resident chaplain to the

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. He was a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces 1915–16 and 1917–19, and he conducted Davidson on his tour of the Western Front in 1917. He proved invaluable as an efficient and effective organiser at the headquarters of the Deputy Chaplain-General, for which he was appointed an

in 1919.University of Birmingham Cadbury Research Centre, Bishop Gwynne's Diary for 4 July 1917. He was vicar of

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, Surrey, and

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(1921–1934), before his elevation to the episcopate.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Macmillan, John Victor 1877 births People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Archdeacons of Maidstone Bishops of Dover, Kent Bishops of Guildford Officers of the Order of the British Empire Holders of a Lambeth degree 20th-century Church of England bishops 1956 deaths World War I chaplains Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers