John Maude
John Cyril Maude KC (3 April 1901 – 16 August 1986)[1] was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician.[2] He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1925 at the Middle Temple.In 1940 he joined the Military Intelligence Corps with the rank of Major, and worked in the offices of the War Cabinet in 1942.[5] Maude made his maiden speech in the Commons on 17 October 1945, in a debate on housing.[7] He voted in 1948 against the suspension of the death penalty, asserting that "the rope" and "the long drop" were feared terribly by criminals.