Reginald Maudling
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The Right Honourable Reginald Maudling |
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| Shadow Foreign Secretary | |
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In office 11 February 1975 – 11 April 1976 |
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| Leader | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey Rippon |
| Succeeded by | John Davies |
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In office 27 July 1965 – 11 November 1965 |
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| Leader |
Alec Douglas-Home Ted Heath |
| Preceded by | Rab Butler |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Soames |
| Home Secretary | |
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In office 20 June 1970 – 18 July 1972 |
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| Prime Minister | Ted Heath |
| Preceded by | Jim Callaghan |
| Succeeded by | Robert Carr |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Defence | |
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In office 21 April 1968 – 1969 |
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| Leader | Ted Heath |
| Preceded by | Enoch Powell |
| Succeeded by | Geoffrey Rippon |
| Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 16 October 1964 – 27 July 1965 |
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| Leader | Alec Douglas-Home |
| Preceded by | Jim Callaghan |
| Succeeded by | Ted Heath |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964 |
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| Prime Minister |
Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home |
| Preceded by | Selwyn Lloyd |
| Succeeded by | Jim Callaghan |
| Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
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In office 9 October 1961 – 13 July 1962 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Iain Macleod |
| Succeeded by | Duncan Sandys |
| President of the Board of Trade | |
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In office 14 October 1959 – 9 October 1961 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | David Eccles |
| Succeeded by | Fred Erroll |
| Paymaster General | |
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In office 14 January 1957 – 14 October 1959 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Walter Monckton |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Mills |
| Minister of Supply | |
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In office 7 April 1955 – 14 January 1957 |
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| Prime Minister | Anthony Eden |
| Preceded by | Selwyn Lloyd |
| Succeeded by | Aubrey Jones |
| Economic Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 1952 – 7 April 1955 |
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| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | John Edwards |
| Succeeded by | Edward Boyle |
| Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 14 February 1979 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Sydney Chapman |
| Member of Parliament for Barnet |
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In office 23 February 1950 – 28 February 1974 |
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| Preceded by | Stephen Taylor |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
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7 March 1917 London, England, UK |
| Died | 14 February 1979 (aged 61) London, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Beryl Laverick (1939–79) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
Reginald Maudling (7 March 1917 – 14 February 1979) was a British politician who held several Cabinet posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had been spoken of as a prospective Conservative leader since 1955, and was twice seriously considered for the post; he was Edward Heath's chief rival in 1965. He also held directorships in several British financial firms.
As Home Secretary, he was responsible for the British Government's Northern Ireland policy during the period that included Bloody Sunday in 1972. Shortly thereafter, he left office due to an unrelated scandal in one of the companies of which he was director. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.
Maudling may be remembered in modern times for being frequently ridiculed on Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Reginald Maudling was born in Woodside Park, North Finchley, and was named after his father, Reginald George Maudling, an actuary, who contracted to do actuarial and financial calculations as the Commercial Calculating Company Ltd. The family moved to Bexhill, to escape German air raids; he won scholarships to the Merchant Taylors' School and Merton College, Oxford. At Oxford, Maudling stayed out of undergraduate politics and studied the works of Hegel; he was to formulate his conclusions later as the inseparability of economic and political freedom: "the purpose of State control and the guiding principle of its application is the achievement of true freedom". He obtained his degree in Classics with first class honours.
Shortly after graduating, Maudling set up a meeting with Harold Nicolson to discuss whether it would be better, as a moderate conservative, to join the Conservative Party or National Labour; Nicolson advised him to wait. Maudling was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1940. However, he did not practise as a barrister, having volunteered for service in the Royal Air Force in World War II. Poor eyesight led him to desk jobs in the RAF intelligence branch where he rose—as a "Wingless Wonder", as officers who were not qualified to wear pilot's wings were called—to the rank of Flight Lieutenant; he was then appointed Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair.
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