Education
Born in Bristol, Maud was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford.
Diplomat Member of the House of Lords
Born in Bristol, Maud was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford.
In 1928, he gained the one-year Henry P. Davison scholarship to Harvard University where he was awarded an Bachelor of Arts in 1929. From 1929 to 1932 he was a Junior Research Fellow University College, Oxford and from 1932-1939 Fellow (Praelector in Politics) and Dean of the college. He was awarded a Rhodes Travelling Scholarship to Africa in 1932 and held a University Lectureship in Politics at Oxford University, 1938-1939.
During World World War II, he was Master of Birkbeck College and was also based at Reading Gaol, working for the Ministry of Food.
He became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1942, and after the war, he worked at the Ministry of Education (1945–1952), rising to Permanent Secretary and then the Ministry of Fuel and Power until 1958. Inter alia, Maud appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation programme The Brains Trust in 1958.
He was High Commissioner to the Union of South Africa from 1959 to 1961, and Ambassador from 1961, when the country became a republic and left the Commonwealth. In 1963, he became Master of University College, Oxford, where he had been a Fellow before the Second World War.
In March 1964, Maud was appointed by Sir Keith Joseph, at the request of local council associations, to head a departmental committee looking into the management of local government.
The Maud Committee reported three years later. During the course of the inquiry, Maud was chosen to head a Royal Commission on the reform of all local government in England. He was awarded a life peerage, hyphenating his surname to become Baron Redcliffe-Maud, of the City and County of Bristol in 1967.
The Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England, popularly known as the Redcliffe-Maud Report, was published in 1969.
lieutenant advocated the wholesale reform of local council boundaries and the institution of large unitary councils based on the principle of mixing rural and urban areas. He retired as Master of University College in 1976, to be succeeded by the leading lawyer Lord Goodman.
His 1973 portrait by Ruskin Spear can be seen in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Another portrait hangs in the Hall at University College in Oxford.
Redcliffe-Maud was married to Jean Hamilton, who was educated at Somerville College, Oxford.
Sir John intervened to curtail Humphrey"s frequent visits to stay with Britten on his own. The incident is described in John Bridcut"s Britten"s Children. John Redcliffe-Maud is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.
His archive is held by the London School of Economics Library.
Redcliffe-Maud House at the University College Annex known as "Stavertonia" in North Oxford is named in honour of him.
He gained a Second in Classical Moderations in 1928 and a First in Literae Humaniores ("Greats") in 1928.At Oxford he was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS).