Harold Macmillan

Maurice Harold Macmillan, later 1st Earl of Stockton, born February 10, 1894, in London, and died December 29, 1986, served as Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from January 1957 to October 1963. He presided over a period of rising prosperity, famously telling voters in 1957 that they had never had it so good, and made Britain's first application to join the European Economic Community, which France vetoed in 1963. In a 1960 address to the South African Parliament he gave his Wind of Change speech, acknowledging the growing force of African nationalism and decolonization. He resigned in October 1963 for health reasons amid the fallout from the Profumo affair scandal.