Lady Caroline Faber

Born|

Ann Caroline Macmillan

29 August 1923[1]

Belgravia, London

Died| 14 September 2016(2016-09-14) (aged 93)

Sussex, England

Education| West Heath Girls' School
Spouse|

Julian Faber

(m. 1944; died 2002)​

Children| 5, including Mark and David Faber
Parent(s)| Harold Macmillan
Lady Dorothy Macmillan

Lady Ann Caroline Faber (née Macmillan; 29 August 1923 - 14 September 2016) was the daughter of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (created Earl of Stockton in 1984) and his wife, Lady Dorothy Macmillan.[2] She was the second of their four children, and their last surviving child.

Caroline Macmillan was born, in 1923 at 14 Chester Square, Belgravia.[1] She attended West Heath Girls' School, where she was offered a place to study medicine at Oxford. She declined the offer and served as an ambulance driver in World War II, during which time she met her future husband, insurance executive Julian Faber, who was an officer in the Welsh Guards.[3]

They were married from 1944 until his death in January 2002[4] and had five children.

* Anne Christine Adriane Faber (1944 - 28 November 2002). Married 1970 (div 1981) Michael Roger Lewis Cockerell (b. 1940), British broadcaster and journalist; issue 1 son and 1 daughter. She married secondly 1995 Hon. David Sidney Bernstein, son of Sidney Lewis Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, by whom she had no further issue.[5][6]
* Michael David Tufnell Faber (born 1945). Married Catherine Suzanne de Braine, and has issue.
* Mark James Julian Faber (1950–1991), a Sussex cricketer. Married Ann Griffith, and has issue.
* David James Christian Faber (born 1961), Conservative politician and a former MCC Committee member.
* James Edwin Charles Faber (born 1964).

The family lived at Birch Grove, the Macmillan home in East Sussex.

Caroline supported the political campaigns of her family members, including her brother Maurice and son David, and carried out charity work for the National Blind Children's Society.

She died in Sussex on 14 September 2016 at the age of 93,[7] and her funeral was held at Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk, London later that month.

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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.

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## Notes

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1. ^ a b "Court Circular". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 30 August 1923. p. 11.
2. ^ "Faber, (Ann) Caroline", Debrett's People of Today (1 November 2000).
3. ^ "Obituary: Lady Caroline Faber". The Times.
4. ^ "Lady Caroline Faber 1923-2016". PeerageNews. 16 September 2016.
5. ^ "Anne Christine Adriane Faber". Retrieved 10 April 2009
6. ^ Conqueror 22. Retrieved 10 April 2009
7. ^ Faber

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Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton

Constituencies|

* Stockton-on-Tees
* Bromley

Family|

* Daniel MacMillan (grandfather)
* Lady Dorothy Macmillan (wife)
* Maurice Macmillan (son)
* Lady Caroline Faber (daughter)
* Julian Amery (son-in-law)
* Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (brother-in-law)

Career|

* 1945 Bromley by-election
* Macmillan government
* US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
* 1959 United Kingdom general election
* Wind of Change speech
* Night of the Long Knives
* Beeching reports
* Vassall affair
* Profumo affair
* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Depictions|

* Supermac (1958 cartoon)
* Never So Good (play, 2008)
* The Crown (TV, 2017)

Related|

* Birch Grove
* The Middle Way (1938)
* 1960 University of Oxford Chancellor election
* 1963 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours
* Earl of Stockton
* Macmillan Publishers
* St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes

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