John Maples, Baron Maples

John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples of Stratford -on-Avon in the County of Warwickshire ( born April 22, 1943 in Fareham, Hampshire; † 9 June 2012) was a British lawyer and politician, the Conservative Party, both in the House of Commons as represented in the House of Lords.

Life

Lawyer, member of the House of Commons and managers

After attending Marlborough College Maples graduated in law at Downing College, University of Cambridge. In addition, he studied economics at the Harvard Business School. After graduation and receipt of the attorney's admission to the Bar ( Inns of Court ) of the Inner Temple in 1966, he took on a job as a lawyer ( barrister ) and held this out to 1983.

His political career began when he Maples as a candidate of the Conservative Party was first elected in the general election of 9 June 1983 in the constituency of Lewisham West as a member of the House of Commons. After his re-election at the general election of 11 June 1987 he suffered at the general election of 9 April 1992 electoral defeat and received only 42.8 percent of the votes, while his rival candidate Jim Dowd of the Labour Party won 47 percent of the vote and the House of mandate won.

During his parliamentary membership, he was initially between 1987 and 1990 Parliamentary private secretary to Norman Lamont, who during this time, first was Financial Secretary to the Treasury ( Financial Secretary to the Treasury ), and finally in 1989 Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Secretary to the Treasury) was. He was subsequently in 1990 Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Economic Secretary to the Treasury), and practiced this fifth most important office in the Treasury Department until his retirement from the House of Commons in 1992.

After retiring from the House, he moved into the private sector between 1992 and 1996 and was chairman for government communications at the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. In addition, he was from 1994 to 1995 Vice- Chairman of the Conservative Party and thus deputy Jeremy Hanley.

In the Lower House elections of 1 May 1997, he was elected with 48.3 percent of the vote again a member of the House of Commons and represented there by his re- election at the general election on 7 June 2001 with 50.3 per cent and in the general election of May 5, 2005 with 49.2 percent of the vote to May 6, 2010, the constituency of Stratford-on -Avon.

Shadow Minister and Member of the Upper House

Immediately after his 1997 election, he was appointed Shadow Health Minister in the shadow cabinet of the Conservative Party of party leader William Hague. After that, he was between 1998 and 1999 spokesperson for the opposition faction of the Conservative Party in the House before he was from 1999 to 2000 Shadow Foreign Secretary in Hague's shadow cabinet. He was subsequently appointed in 2006 a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and then again since November 2006 vice-chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for the selection of candidates of the party in elections between November 2000 and November.

In January 2010 he told his waiver of a renewed candidacy in the general election in May 2010 and was named after his retirement from the House of Commons on 24 July 2010 as the Life peer with the title of Lord Maples of Stratford- upon- Avon in the County of Warwickshire raised to the peerage. As such, he was, from then until his death from cancer on June 9, 2012 to the House of Lords as a member.