John Maples

For the cricket player, see John Maples (cricketer).

The Right Honourable
The Lord Maples
Official portrait, c. 2005
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
In office
26 October 1989 – 10 April 1992
Prime Minister
Preceded byRichard Ryder
Succeeded byAnthony Nelson
Shadow Foreign Secretary
In office
15 June 1999 – 2 February 2000
LeaderWilliam Hague
Preceded byMichael Howard
Succeeded byFrancis Maude
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
In office
1 June 1998 – 15 June 1999
LeaderWilliam Hague
Preceded byGeorge Young
Succeeded byIain Duncan Smith
Shadow Secretary of State for Health
In office
19 June 1997 – 1 June 1998
LeaderWilliam Hague
Preceded byStephen Dorrell
Succeeded byAnn Widdecombe
Parliamentary offices
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage
24 July 2010 – 9 June 2012
Member of Parliament
for Stratford-on-Avon
In office
1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010
Preceded byAlan Howarth
Succeeded byNadhim Zahawi
Member of Parliament
for Lewisham West
In office
9 June 1983 – 16 March 1992
Preceded byChristopher Price
Succeeded byJim Dowd
Personal details
Born
John Cradock Maples

(1943-04-22)22 April 1943
Fareham, England
Died9 June 2012(2012-06-09) (aged 69)
Westminster, London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouses
Lawry Kennedy
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(m. 1976; div. 1980)​
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(m. 1986)​
Children2 (by Corbin)
EducationMarlborough College
Alma mater
WebsiteOfficial website

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. 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.