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John Maud was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford . At Oxford he was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS). In 1928 he gained a one-year Scholarship to Harvard University . During World War II he was Master of Birkbeck College, London and was also based at Reading Gaol , working for the Ministry Of Food . After the war, he worked at the Ministry Of Education ( 1945 – 1952 ) and then the Ministry Of Fuel And Power until 1958 . 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 in 1967 . Lord Redcliffe-Maud 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; the report was effectively ignored by the Local Government Act 1972 . He retired as Master of University College in 1976, to be succeeded by the leading Lawyer Lord Goodman . His 1973 portrait by Ruskin Spear can be seen in the National Portrait Gallery , London . Redcliffe-Maud was married to Jean Hamilton , who was educated at Somerville College, Oxford . He is buried in Holywell Cemetery , Oxford . REFERENCE
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