Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative politician.
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Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative politician.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland 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.
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Second son of Mary Emmeline Eden Drummond, daughter of General Henry Drummond, and Colonel Edward Harris Steel, Steel-Maitland was educated at Rugby and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a classical Scholar and Eldon Scholar in 1899.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland gained first class honours in classics and law, and became a Fellow of All Souls College in 1900.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland was Secretary, Junior Treasurer and President of the Oxford Union Society, and rowed against Cambridge in 1899.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland was appointed an assistant private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Charles Ritchie, in October 1902.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland unsuccessfully contested Rugby in 1906, and was a Special Commissioner to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws from 1906 to 1907.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland 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.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland 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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Arthur Steel-Maitland served under David Lloyd George as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1915 to 1917.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland then held office under Lloyd George as Secretary for Overseas Trade in his capacity as Head of the Department of Overseas Trade from 1917 to 1919.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland is buried in St Ninians Churchyard south of Stirling.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland married Mary, daughter of Sir James Ramsay-Gibson-Maitland, 4th Baronet, of Barnton and Sauchie, in 1901.
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Arthur Steel-Maitland died in March 1935, aged 58, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Arthur.
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