Lady Olga Maitland
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Lady Helen Olga Hay better known as Lady Olga Maitland, is a former British
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 Conservative
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 politician.

Family and education

The daughter of Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale
Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale
Patrick Francis Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale FRGS , styled Hon. Patrick Maitland from 1953 to 1968, was a British Conservative politician.-Early life:...

, she was educated at St. Mary and St. Anne's School, Abbots Bromley
Abbots Bromley
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 (today the Abbots Bromley School for Girls
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) and the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle
Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle
The Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle is a large French primary and secondary school situated in South Kensington, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London...

 in London.

Career

Olga Maitland was a reporter for the Fleet Street News Agency, the Blackheath and District Reporter, and a columnist in the London Sunday Express (1967–1991). In 1998 she became a contributor to the Daily Mail.

In 1983 she was founder and thereafter lady chairman of Families for Defence, and from 1992 was President of the Defence & Security Forum.

Politics

At the 1987 General Election
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, she was the Conservative
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 Prospective Parliamentary Candidate at Bethnal Green and Stepney
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, but was unsuccessful. Lady Olga Maitland subsequently became Member of Parliament
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 for Sutton and Cheam
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 from 1992 to the 1997 General Election
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 that swept the Conservative Party from government when she lost to Liberal Democrat
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 Paul Burstow
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Paul Kenneth Burstow , British politician, is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam. In May 2010 he was appointed Minister of State for the Department of Health.-Early life:...

. She unsuccessfully fought the seat again in 2001. At Westminster
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 Olga Maitland was a member of the Parliamentary Select Committees for Education, Health and Procedures, Northern Ireland, Defence & Foreign Affairs, and was sometime secretary to the Conservative Backbench Committee. She was also a member of the Yugoslav
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 Parliamentary Group. She promoted Private Members Bills in the House of Commons
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 on Prisoner's Return to Custody (1995), and Offensive Weapons (1996), and in 1996-97 was Parliamentary Private Secretary to The Rt. Hon. Sir John Wheeler
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, then Minister of State for Northern Ireland
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 at the N.I.O.
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.

Marriage

On 19 April 1969, she married Robin William Patrick Hamilton Hay, M.A., LL.B., a Crown Court Recorder
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. They have two sons and a daughter.

Publications

  • Peace Studies in our Schools (1985) - (contributor)
  • Margaret Thatcher: the first ten years (1989)
  • Faith in the Family (1997)
  • Political Indoctrination in Our Schools.
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