SEC Form 3 
FORM 3	UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 	  
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
ROCHE GEORGE A	

(Last)	(First)	(Middle)	
18 LOVETON CIRCLE	

(Street) 
SPARKS	MD	21152	

(City)	(State)	(Zip)	
	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
02/01/2007 	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol 
MCCORMICK & CO INC [ MKC ] 		
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer 
(Check all applicable) 
X	Director		10% Owner	
	Officer (give title below)		Other (specify below)	
	
	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)				
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) 
X	Form filed by One Reporting Person	
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person	
	
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned	
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4) 	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4) 	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5) 	
Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) 	
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)	3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 	4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5) 	
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares				
Explanation of Responses:	
Remarks:	
	
No securities are beneficially owned.	
	Sonia Cudd, Attorney-in-fact	02/05/2007	
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date	
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

        Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each

of Robert W. Skelton, W. Geoffrey Carpenter and Sonia Cudd, the undersigned's true and lawful

attorney-in-fact:

(1) to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's

capacity as an officer and/or director of McCormick & Company, Incorporated

(the "Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the rules thereunder, and Form 144 in

accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933;

(2) to do and perform such acts for and on behalf of the undersigned as may be

necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,

and Form 144, and timely file such forms with the United States Securities

and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3) to take such other actions as such attorney-in-fact, on advice of counsel, may

deem to be of benefit to, in the best interests of, or legally required by, the

undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such

attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of

Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions

as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

        The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to

do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done

in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes

as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or

revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's

substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney

and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing

attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,

nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with the

Securities Act of 1933.

        This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no

longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5, and/or Form 144, with respect to the undersigned's

holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the

undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed

as of this 12 day of January, 2007.

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George A Roche