Angus Maude

Angus Edmund Upton Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-on-Avon PC (born September 8, 1912 in Hendon , Middlesex , † November 9, 1993 in Banbury , Oxfordshire , England ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

Maude studied after attending the Rugby School at Oriel College of the University of Oxford and was then in 1933 a financial journalist at the daily newspaper The Times , and 1935 to 1939 in Daily Mail . After World War II , he was Deputy Director of the Political and Economic Planning (PEP) think tank from 1948 to 1950 .

He was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons in the general election of February 23, 1950 and initially represented the newly created constituency of Ealing South until April 18, 1958 . During this time he was also director of the Conservative Political Center, a think tank of the Conservative Party, from 1951 to 1955. After he resigned his mandate in the House of Commons in 1958, he became editor of The Sydney Morning Herald , one of Australia's leading daily newspapers .

On August 15, 1963, he was re - elected to the House of Commons in a by-election , where he represented the constituency of Stratford-on-Avon until he left the House of Commons on June 9, 1983 . In this constituency he succeeded John Profumo , who had resigned as Minister of the Army and Member of the House of Commons in the course of the so-called Profumo affair after it became known that he had a love affair with the model Christine Keeler , which in turn also had an affair with Yevgeny Ivanov, the Naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy in London .

During his parliamentary membership Maude was spokesman for the conservative opposition faction in the lower house, but had to give up this position in 1967 after he had criticized the party politics of the then opposition leader and later Prime Minister Edward Heath . Ultimately, this also meant that Maude von Heath was not appointed to his cabinet, which was in office between 1970 and 1974. On the other hand, this criticism of Heath also led to Maude being one of the main supporters of Margaret Thatcher in her successful candidacy for chairmanship of the Conservative Party against Heath in 1975 . He himself then became deputy chairman of the party until 1979 and was also chairman of the party's internal research department at the same time.

After the Conservatives won the general election on May 3, 1979 , Prime Minister Thatcher appointed him Paymaster General . He held this office until his resignation and his subsequent replacement by Francis Pym on January 5, 1981. In 1981 he was awarded the knighthood.

After leaving the House of Commons, he was raised to the nobility in 1983 as Baron Maude of Stratford-on-Avon , of Stratford-upon-Avon in the County of Warwickshire, and was a member of the House of Lords until his death .

His son Francis Maude is also a Conservative Party politician and has been a Paymaster General and Minister for Cabinet Affairs in the Cameron I cabinet since 2010 .

Works

• Biography of a nation , 1955
• Good learning , 1964
• South Asia , 1966
• The consuming society , 1967
• Education: quality and equality , 1968
• The common problem , 1969

Web links

• Thatcher's First Administration (1979)
• Angus Maude at Hansard (English)
• Works by and about Angus Maude at Open Library
• The Independent: Obituary: Lord Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon (November 11, 1993)