Early Life
Maude was educated at Abingdon School, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and at the College of Law. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1977, and practised criminal law.
Maude served a councillor for the City of Westminster from 1978 to 1984.
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