Macmillan laid to rest

Press, 7 January 1987, Page 8

Macmillan laid to rest

NZPA-Reuter Horsted Keynes, England Harold Macmillan, the former Conservative Prime Minister who as Lord Stockton became one of Britain’s best-re-spected elder statesmen, was burled yesterday in a humble village churchyard. Six estate workers from his- home near the village of Horsted Keynes, in the southern county of Sussex,

bore Lord Stockton’s coffin to its resting place beside his wife and parents as 200 mourners, including the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, gathered to pay their last respects. “Supermac,” as he was nick-named, died peacefully in his sleep at home last Monday, aged 92. More than 60 members of the Macmillan family were present at the private service in the tiny

Saint Giles parish church. His grandson, Viscount Alexander Macmillan, told reporters at the funeral that Lord Stockton's last words were: “I think I’ll go to sleep now.” Lord Stockton often visited the church, which was decorated yesterday with yellow and white flowers from his own estate. There were wreaths

and tributes from people in the village, where he was known respectfully as “Mr Harold.” The service was led by the Bishop of Chichester, The 4 Right Rev. Eric Waldram Kemp. “Macmillan understood the signs of the intellectual and moral revolutions which were to mark the ’6os, some of whose effects are still unhappily with us,” he said in his address.