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Shield: Parted per chief Or and Argent a lion rampant Sable between three open books proper fore-edged Or bound Azure and as many stars one in chief and two in flanks also Azure, the book in dexter chief inscribed MISERERES the one in sinister chief inscribed DISCERE and the one in base SUCCO, the lettering Sable.
SOURCES, NOTES & CREDITS: The illustration for background and the text are adapted from the Wikipedia article. 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 Earldom of Stockton is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 February 1984 for Harold Macmillan, the former Conservative prime minister (from 1957 to 1963), less than three years before his death in 1986. 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 Earls of Stockton were/are:
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).
The artwork is an interpretation of John Hamilton Gaylor.
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