Earl of Stockton

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox nobility title Earl of Stockton is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 February 1984 for Harold Macmillan,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> the former Conservative prime minister (from 1957 to 1963),<ref name="HMobituary">Template:Cite news</ref> less than three years before his death in 1986.<ref name="HMobituary"/> At the same time he received a 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, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The viscountcy is used as a courtesy title by the earl's heir apparent.

The titles are held by the first holder's grandson, being the second earl, who succeeded in 1986 on his grandfather's death (namely Alexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton, son of Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, only son of the first earl, who died in 1984). The earldom and viscountcy are the most recent hereditary peerages created outside of the royal family and, with the Thatcher baronetcy (which is not a peerage), the only hereditary titles which survive of the few created since 1965.

The family seat was Birch Grove, near Chelwood Gate, East Sussex, but it was sold by the 2nd Earl in 1989.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Earl of Stockton (1984)

• Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894–1986)
• Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born 1943)

The heir apparent is the present holder's only son, Daniel Maurice Alan Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (born 1974).

Line of succession

• Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894–1986)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (1921–1984)
    • Alexander Daniel Alan Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (born 1943)
      • (1) Daniel Maurice Alan Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (born 1974)
    • Hon. Adam Julian Robert Macmillan (1948–2016)
      • (2) Frederick Maurice Brian Macmillan (born 1990)
      • (3) Joshua Gabriel P. Macmillan (born 1995)
    • (4) Hon. David Maurice Benjamin Macmillan (born 1957)
      • (5) Finn Joshua Marcus Macmillan (born 1995)

Bibliography

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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