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John Maples (John Cradock Maples) was born on 22 April, 1943 in Fareham, England, is a British politician (1943–2012). Discover John Maples's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As John Cradock Maples
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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 22 April 1943
Birthday 22 April
Birthplace Fareham, England
Date of death 9 June, 2012
Died Place Westminster, London, England
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1943

John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples (22 April 1943 – 9 June 2012) was a British politician and life peer who served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1989 to 1992.

1946

Maples married designer Lawry Kennedy (1946–1982), 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.

1960

In the 1960s, Maples founded the Cayman Islands law firm of Maples and Calder with James MacDonald and Douglas Calder.

1964

Maples received an MA in 1964, and later studied at the Harvard Business School.

1965

He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1965.

1976

They married on the Rhode Island oceanfront in July 1976; she divorced him in July 1980.

1983

A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West from 1983 to 1992 and Stratford-upon-Avon from 1997 to 2010.

John Cradock Maples was born at Fareham, Hampshire.

His father, a businessman, lived in the Wirral; he was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Downing College, Cambridge, where he read law, and played hockey for the college and performed with the Footlights.

Maples was the MP for Lewisham West from 1983, until he lost the seat at the 1992 general election.

His business background attracted him to the Treasury benches: Margaret Thatcher appointed him Parliamentary Private Secretary to Norman Lamont, then Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

1986

He married journalist Jane Corbin in December 1986 in Westminster.

The couple had a son and a daughter.

1989

On Nigel Lawson's resignation in 1989, Lamont was made Chief Secretary to the Treasury, with Maples moving up to take Lamont's former role.

During his time as Economic Secretary from 1989 to 1990, Maples was instrumental in working with David Cameron on the policy to enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism, with the pound sterling pegged designed to track the German deutschmark.

1990

In 1990, Maples had been appointed as Economic Secretary before the change of Prime Ministers.

He dealt with the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) case.

The Arab bank was based in London, and fell prey to the subsequent Arms to Iraq scandals and collapsed, bankrupting its depositors.

He was also responsible for monitoring the Bank of England's monetary policy, which included bank regulation.

1992

At the 1992 general election he lost the Lewisham seat to Labour.

1995

In 1995, after Stratford-upon-Avon MP Alan Howarth defected to Labour, 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.

1997

He 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.

Maples went on to be elected for the seat, which was one of the Conservatives' safest, in 1997.

Maples was a member of William Hague's shadow cabinet from 1997 to 2000, holding the Health, Defence and Foreign Policy briefs in succession.

While Shadow Foreign Secretary, he was caught apparently calling for Britain to help Vladimir Putin in the Second Chechen War, by saying that "because there is nothing we can do about it anyway."

In the reshuffle prompted by the return of Michael Portillo to the front bench, he lost his job to Francis Maude and left the shadow cabinet.

Maples had been widely believed to be one of the main "plotters" behind the downfall of then Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith.

2001

He was re-elected in both the 2001 and 2005 general elections.

2006

He 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.

He replaced ex-shadow cabinet minister Bernard Jenkin.

Because of Cameron's high-profile attempts to have more female and minority candidates selected, which met with some opposition from local parties, the post was seen as an important one.

2009

In the 2009 MP's expenses scandal it emerged that Maples had claimed the Royal Automobile Club as his principal residence though according to his obituary he immediately denied any wrongdoing.

2010

Maples was a Cameron loyalist, and elevated to the House of Lords in July 2010.

While an MP, Maples was president of the Conservative Friends of Israel.

On 10 January 2010, Maples announced that he would stand down from the House of Commons at the general election which was held that May.

On 24 June 2010, in the Dissolution Honours List, Maples was created a Life Peer as Baron Maples, of Stratford-upon-Avon in the County of Warwickshire.

During a Lords debate on voting reform in November 2010, Lord Maples compared Lewisham West unfavourably with his other former constituency, Stratford-upon-Avon, stating that they "could not be more different".

He claimed that Lewisham West was "three square miles of concrete", did not have an "identity", and that many of its constituents "did not know which borough they lived in".

He added that Stratford-upon-Avon had a "very articulate" electorate and Lewisham West had "immigration and housing problems".

Lord Maples was working on the Financial Services Bill from the joint Parliamentary Finance Committee.