Katharine Margaret Alice Macmillan, Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden (''née'' Ormsby-Gore; 4 January 1921 – 22 January 2017) was the daughter of the 4th Baron Harlech, granddaughter of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury, great-granddaughter of the 10th Marquess of Huntly and daughter-in-law of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton. On 22 August 1942, she married

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Maurice Macmillan 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 Min ...

, making her the daughter-in-law of fellow Conservative politician Harold Macmillan, who would serve as prime minister from 1957 to 1963. They had five children together: * 1) Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born 1943) * 2) Joshua Edward Andrew Macmillan (1945–1965) * 3) Adam Julian Robert Macmillan (1948–2016) * 4) Rachel Mary Georgia Macmillan (1955–1987) * 5) David Maurice Benjamin Macmillan (born 1957) She was Vice-Chairman of the

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in 1968 and was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1974. She became Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden in February 1984 when her

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, former

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Harold Macmillan, accepted a peerage and was created

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. Her husband died the following month, so never inherited the earldom from his father. She died on 22 January 2017.MACMILLAN
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