Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet
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The Right Honourable Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland Bt |
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Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Bt, c. 1930s.
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| Minister of Labour | |
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In office 6 November 1924 – 4 June 1929 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Tom Shaw |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Bondfield |
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| Born | 5 July 1876 |
| Died | 30 March 1935 (aged 58) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Maitland |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet, PC (5 July 1876 – 30 March 1935) was a British Conservative politician. He was the first Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1911 to 1916 and held junior office from 1915 to 1919 in David Lloyd George's coalition government. From 1924 to 1929 he was Minister of Labour under Stanley Baldwin, with a seat in the cabinet.
The second son of Colonel E. H. Steel and Emmeline, daughter of General Henry Drummond, Steel-Maitland was educated at Rugby and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a classical Scholar and Eldon Scholar in 1899. He gained first class honours in classics and law, and became a Fellow of All Souls College in 1900. He was Secretary, Junior Treasurer and President of the Oxford Union Society, and rowed against Cambridge in 1899. His brother, Col. Richard Steel, was concerned with MIO during the war.
Steel-Maitland unsuccessfully contested Rugby in 1906, and was a Special Commissioner to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws from 1906 to 1907. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Birmingham East in 1910, a seat he held until 1918, and then represented Birmingham Erdington from 1918 to 1929 and Tamworth from 1929 until 1935. He was the first Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1911 to 1916, and founded the Unionist Social Reform Committee in 1911.
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