Angus Maude

Who was Angus Maude?

Angus Edmund Upton Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon PC, was born at 44 Temple Fortune Lane, Hendon, Middlesex, the only child of Alan Hamer Maude, journalist and army officer, and Dorothy Maude Upton, daughter of Frederic Upton, a civil servant. He was a Conservative Party politician and British cabinet member from 1979 until 1981. He was the father of Conservative MP Francis Maude.

Maude was educated, mainly in Classics, at Rugby School and at Oriel College, Oxford where he obtained a Second Class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 1933. He became a journalist and author, working on The Times and The Daily Mail.

Maude was elected Member of Parliament for Ealing South in 1950. He continued to work in journalism and was Director of the Conservative Political Centre, 1951–55. In 1958, he resigned his seat to become editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, a post which he held until 1961. He returned to Parliament to represent the constituency of Stratford-on-Avon from a by-election in 1963 until 1983.

Maude was shadow aviation spokesman, but was sacked in 1967 by Edward Heath after criticising party policy.