1. John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples was a British politician and life peer who served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1989 to 1992.
21 Facts About John Maples
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John Maples was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1965.
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John Maples was the MP for Lewisham West from 1983, until he lost the seat at the 1992 general election.
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On Nigel Lawson's resignation in 1989, Lamont was made Chief Secretary to the Treasury, with John Maples moving up to take Lamont's former role.
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In 1990, John Maples had been appointed as Economic Secretary before the change of Prime Ministers.
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John Maples was responsible for monitoring the Bank of England's monetary policy, which included bank regulation.
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John Maples returned to the House of Commons at the following general election, in 1997; in the interim he was Chairman of Saatchi and Saatchi, the advertising and lobbying group, which had supported Thatcher.
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In 1995, after Stratford-upon-Avon MP Alan Howarth defected to Labour, John Maples won the selection battle to replace him as Conservative candidate for the constituency, defeating local resident Maureen Hicks, former MP for Wolverhampton North East, who had likewise lost her seat in 1992.
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John Maples went on to be elected for the seat, which was one of the Conservatives' safest, in 1997.
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John Maples was re-elected in both the 2001 and 2005 general elections.
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John Maples was a member of William Hague's shadow cabinet from 1997 to 2000, holding the Health, Defence and Foreign Policy briefs in succession.
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John Maples had been widely believed to be one of the main "plotters" behind the downfall of then Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith.
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John Maples returned to front bench politics in a minor reshuffle in November 2006, when David Cameron appointed him Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for candidate selection.
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John Maples was a Cameron loyalist, and elevated to the House of Lords in July 2010.
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On 10 January 2010, John Maples announced that he would stand down from the House of Commons at the general election which was held that May.
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On 24 June 2010, in the Dissolution Honours List, John Maples was created a Life Peer as Baron John Maples, of Stratford-upon-Avon in the County of Warwickshire.
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John Maples added that Stratford-upon-Avon had a "very articulate" electorate and Lewisham West had "immigration and housing problems".
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Lord John Maples was working on the Financial Services Bill from the joint Parliamentary Finance Committee.
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John Maples married designer Lawry Kennedy, who was one of the first people to renovate early 1900s brick townhouses to help gentrify abandoned and rundown areas in Boston in the United States, and London in England.
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John Maples married journalist Jane Corbin in December 1986 in Westminster.
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John Maples died at the Harley Street Clinic in Weymouth Street, Westminster, on 9 June 2012 from cancer, aged 69; his death was announced in the Lords by Baroness D'Souza.