On 13 July 1962, British prime minister Harold Macmillan carried out a major cabinet reshuffle of his premiership. Macmillan dismissed seven members of his Cabinet, a third of the total.
Harold Macmillan, whose Cabinet reshuffle, precipitated by a leak to the press, became known as the "Night of the Long Knives"
John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel, was a British politician, sitting as a National Liberal and Conservative Member of Parliament before the party was fully assimilated into the Unionist Party
1962 portrait
