Olga Maitland
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Lady Helen Olga Hay |
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Member of Parliament for Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam |
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In office 9 April 1992 – 30 April 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Neil Macfarlane |
| Succeeded by | Paul Burstow |
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| Born |
Helen Olga Maitland 23 May 1944 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Robin William Patrick Hamilton Hay |
| Children | Two sons and a daughter |
Lady Helen Olga Hay (born 23 May 1944), better known by her maiden name as Lady Olga Maitland, is a former British Conservative politician.
The daughter of the 17th Earl of Lauderdale (Patrick Maitland) and the Countess of Lauderdale (the former Stanka Losanitch), Maitland was educated at St Mary and St Anne's School, Abbots Bromley (today the Abbots Bromley School for Girls) and the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London.
Maitland was a reporter for the Fleet Street News Agency, the Blackheath and District Reporter, and a columnist for the Sunday Express (1967–91). In 1983 she was founder and thereafter chairman of Families for Defence, and from 1992 was President of the Defence and Security Forum. In 1998 she became a contributor to the Daily Mail.
In the mid-1980s, Maitland formed the right wing group, Women & Families for Defence, which aimed to counter the protests against the deployment of American Cruise missiles on British soil and to oppose the Greenham Common Peace Camp.
At the 1987 General Election, Maitland was the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate at Bethnal Green and Stepney, but was unsuccessful. Lady Olga Maitland subsequently became Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam from 1992 to the 1997 General Election that swept the Conservative Party from government when she lost to Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow. She unsuccessfully fought the seat again in 2001.
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