Earl of Stockton

Earl of Stockton
Creation date24 February 1984
Created byQueen Elizabeth II
PeeragePeerage of the United Kingdom
First holderHarold Macmillan
Present holderAlexander Macmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton
Heir apparentDaniel Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden
Remainder tothe 1st Earl's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
Subsidiary titlesViscount Macmillan of Ovenden
StatusExtant
Former seatBirch Grove
MottoMISERES DISCERE SUCCO
(I learn to aid the poor)

Earl of Stockton is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 February 1984 for Harold Macmillan,[1] the former Conservative prime minister (from 1957 to 1963),[2] less than three years before his death in 1986.[2] 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.[3]

Earl of Stockton (1984)

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

Line of succession


Arms

Coat of arms of Macmillan, Earls of Stockton
Crest
Upon a helm with a wreath or azure and sable within sprigs of oak fructed or a dexter cubit arm and a sinister arm embowed both proper the dexter hand gauntletted or and with the other brandishing a two handed sword proper hilt pommel and quillons sable.
Escutcheon
Argent a chief or overall between three open books proper edged or and bound azure those in chief inscribed respectively in letters sable ` Miseres’ and ` Discere’ and that in base also in letters sable inscribed ` Succo’ and as many mullets azure a lion rampant sable.
Supporters
Dexter, a lion rampant gules; Sinister, an American bald headed eagle proper the compartment comprising a crenelated wall proper in the portal thereof an anchor azure and joined on either side by two bars wavy azure to a grassy mount growing from that on the dexter a long branch and from that on the sinister a thistle both proper.[5]

References

  1. ^ "No. 49660". The London Gazette. 29 February 1984. p. 2951.
  2. ^ a b "Harold Macmillan Dies at 92". The New York Times. 30 December 1986. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Golf: Birch Grove gone for good". The Brighton Argus. 24 December 2004.
  4. ^ Morris, Susan; Bosberry-Scott, Wendy; Belfield, Gervase, eds. (2019). "Stockton, Earl of". Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Vol. 1 (150th ed.). London: Debrett's Ltd. pp. 4466–4468. ISBN 978-1-999767-0-5-1.
  5. ^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019. ISBN 9781999767051.

Bibliography

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