John Primatt Redcliffe Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud, (3 February 1906 – 20 November 1982) was a British civil servant and diplomat. He headed the Royal Commission on Local Government in England, which published the Redcliffe-Maud Report, a proposal on local government reorganization, in 1969. He was High Commissioner to the Union of South Africa from 1959 to 1961 and Master of University College, Oxford from 1963 to 1976.
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Early life
Born in Bristol, Maud was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. He gained a Second in Classical Moderations in 1928 and a First in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1928. At Oxford he was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS). In 1928, he gained the one-year Henry P. Davison scholarship to Harvard University where he was awarded an A.B. in 1929. From 1929 to 1932 he was a junior research fellow of University College, Oxford and from 1932 to 1939 fellow (Praelector in Politics) and dean of the college. He was awarded a Rhodes Travelling Scholarship to Africa in 1932 and held a university lectureship in Politics at Oxford University, 1938–1939.