High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Angus Edmund Upton Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon (8 September 1912 9 November 1993), was a Conservative Party politician and British cabinet member from 1979 until 1981. He was the father of Conservative MP Francis Maude. Maude was educated at Rugby School and Oriel College, Oxford. He worked as a journalist and author. Maude was elected Member of Parliament for Ealing South in 1950. He continued to work in journalism and was Director of the Conservative Political Centre, 1951-55. In 1958, he resigned his seat to become editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, a post which he held until 1961. He returned to Parliament to represent the constituency of Stratford-on-Avon from a by-election in 1963 until 1983.