Angus Maude
Angus Edmund Upton Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-on- Avon, in the County of Warwickshire PC ( * September 8, 1912; † 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, University of Oxford and then in 1933 the financial economic journalist for the daily newspaper The Times and 1935-1939 at Daily Mail. After the Second World War he was 1948-1950 Deputy director of the think tank Political and Economic Planning (PEP ).
He was first elected as an MP in the House of Commons at the general election of 23 February 1950 and took there first until 18 April 1958 the newly created constituency of Ealing South. During this time he was at the same time from 1951 to 1955 director of the Conservative Political Centre, a think-tank of the Conservative Party. After he had in 1958 renounced his mandate in the House, he was an editor at The Sydney Morning Herald, a leading daily newspaper in Australia.
On August 15, 1963 he was again elected in a by-election in the House of Commons and represented there until his retirement from the House of Commons on 9 June 1983, the constituency of Stratford-on -Avon. In this constituency, he was the successor of John Profumo, who resigned as Defense Minister and the House of Commons Member of Parliament in the course of the so-called Profumo affair after it was announced that this maintained a love affair with the model Christine Keeler, in turn, at the same time having an affair with Yevgeny Ivanov, the naval Attaché had at the Soviet Embassy in London.
During his parliamentary membership was Maude spokesman for the conservative opposition faction in the House, but this function had to leave in 1967, after he criticized the party politics of the then opposition leader and later prime minister Edward Heath. This ultimately led to the fact that Maude Heath has not appointed an acting in the 1970-1974 cabinet. On the other hand, led the criticism of Heath but also to the fact that Maude was in 1975 one of the key supporters of Margaret Thatcher in their successful bid for the chairmanship of the Conservative Party from Heath. He was then to 1979, Vice Chairman of the party and also at the same time was also chairman of the party 's internal research department.
After the electoral victory of the Conservatives in the general election of May 3, 1979, he was appointed by Prime Minister Thatcher to Paymaster General ( Paymaster General ). This office he held until his resignation and his subsequent replacement by Francis Pym on 5 January 1981. 1981, the knighthood he was awarded.
After retiring from the House, he was raised in 1983 as Baron Maude of Stratford-on- Avon, in the County of Warwickshire, in the peerage, and thus belonged to until his death as a member of the House of Lords.
His son Francis Maude is also the Conservative Party politician and since 2010 as Paymaster General and Minister of Cabinet Affairs in the Cabinet Cameron.
Publications
- Biography of a nation, 1955
- Good learning, 1964
- South Asia, 1966
- The consuming society, 1967
- Education: quality and equality, 1968
- The common trouble, 1969