Baron Redcliffe-Maud. British diplomat. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. In 1928, he gained a one-year scholarship to Harvard University. During World War II he was Master of Birkbeck College and was also based at Reading Gaol, working for the Ministry of Food. After the war, he worked at the Ministry of Education. He was High Commissioner in South Africa from 1959 to 1963, when he became Master of University College, Oxford, where he had been a Fellow before the war. He was made a life peer as Baron Redcliffe-Maud, of the City and County of Bristol in 1967. He is best known for the Redcliffe-Maud Report published in the late 1960s by a Royal Commission that he chaired, on the future of English Local Government, including county boundary changes. He retired as Master of University College in 1976. He is buried in Holywell cemetery, Oxford.
Baron Redcliffe-Maud. British diplomat. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. In 1928, he gained a one-year scholarship to Harvard University. During World War II he was Master of Birkbeck College and was also based at Reading Gaol, working for the Ministry of Food. After the war, he worked at the Ministry of Education. He was High Commissioner in South Africa from 1959 to 1963, when he became Master of University College, Oxford, where he had been a Fellow before the war. He was made a life peer as Baron Redcliffe-Maud, of the City and County of Bristol in 1967. He is best known for the Redcliffe-Maud Report published in the late 1960s by a Royal Commission that he chaired, on the future of English Local Government, including county boundary changes. He retired as Master of University College in 1976. He is buried in Holywell cemetery, Oxford.
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