• But who, as a patrician British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, once loftily asked, are these middle classes?

    ECONOMIST: Burgeoning bourgeoisie

  • Former Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell and Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan are both cited as "astute politicians".

    BBC: Fat lady's friend

  • Where Mr Miliband drew his inspiration from Benjamin Disraeli, Mr Cameron seemed to draw his from Harold Macmillan.

    BBC: Who won the battle of values?

  • After two years of work, without modern hydraulic machinery, it was officially opened by then Prime Minister Harold MacMillan.

    BBC: Marking 50 years of UK motorways

  • At the time, Mrs Thatcher was a frontbench MP in Harold Macmillan's government.

    BBC: Thatcher's role 'in saving Nelson Mandela'

  • Sir Winston Churchill received four points, as did Edward Heath and Harold Macmillan.

    BBC: Margaret Thatcher ruled from 1979 to 1990

  • Harold Macmillan contended that Britain would become the wise Greeks to America's Rome.

    ECONOMIST: Anti-war Americans

  • The incident caused outrage in the U.K. and put a serious dent in the government of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Harold Macmillan once remarked that no sensible man directly challenged the National Union of Mineworkers or the Brigade of Guards.

    ECONOMIST: Chris Smith��s class act

  • In 1960, Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev heckled and thumped his desk during British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's speech to the U.N.

    CNN: Monday,

  • The sad truth for Mr Cameron and Mr Brown is that like Harold Macmillan with JFK alongside Mr Obama they will both look depressingly plain.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • That denial was untrue and was later repeated in the Commons, sealing Profumo's political doom and doing huge collateral damage to Harold Macmillan's government.

    BBC: That most mysterious of Westminster rituals

  • In 1986, former British prime minister (1957-63) Harold Macmillan died.

    CNN: Monday,

  • In one famous illustration, published at the time of the 1963 Profumo affair, he imagined a naked Harold MacMillan sitting on a chair in a pose made famous by the model Christine Keeler.

    BBC: Gerald Scarfe's colourful career

  • Prime Minister Harold Macmillan soon (in 1961) gave her a junior office at Pensions, and when the Conservatives returned to power in 1970, she was fortunate to be allotted to the one seat in the cabinet reserved for a woman, secretary of state for education.

    WSJ: Paul Johnson: The World-Changing Margaret Thatcher

  • In his scepticism towards grand plans, and in the privileged background he shares with many colleagues (a political handicap, confess Tories too canny to believe Britain has become classless), he seems to follow more naturally in the tradition of patrician Tory leaders such as Harold Macmillan.

    ECONOMIST: The Conservatives in government

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