was defeated by 331 votes to 11, and a move to suspend him for six months was lost by 324 to 97. As Lewis Baston's 2004 biography recounts, Maudling and his wife became heavy drinkers once his political career was effectively ended by the scandal. The drinking turned to alcoholism and Maudling's health rapidly deteriorated in the late 1970s. He collapsed in early 1979. Death Maudling died at the Royal Free Hospital in London, from kidney failure and cirrhosis of the liver, on 14 February 1979; he was 61. His body was buried in the churchyard of Little Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire. A stone seat from his garden was placed beside the grave. Family life Maudling married actress Beryl Laverick (1919–1988) in 1939. They had three sons and a daughter, Caroline Maudling, who became a journalist in the 1960s as the "travelling teenager" of the Daily Mail and, among other things, appeared alongside John Lennon on BBC TV's Juke Box Jury in 1963. Maudling's mother had disowned him as a result of his marriage, and Maudling did not attend her funeral in 1956. When Caroline aroused comment by having a child out of wedlock in the late 1960s, Maudling was staunch in her defence, publicly expressing paternal pride. Beryl Maudling's body was buried next to her husband's at Little Berkhamsted. In popular culture Maudling was portrayed by actor Michael Culkin in the BBC-produced 2018 limited television series A Very English Scandal. See also List of deaths through alcohol References Further reading Dell, Edmund. The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors of the Exchequer, 1945-90 (HarperCollins, 1997) pp 283–303, covers his term as Chancellor. Lewis Baston (2004) Reggie: The Life of Reginald Maudling. Sutton Publishing. Principal source, where no other is specified. Michael Gillard (1974) A little pot of money. The story of Reginald Maudling and the Real Estate Fund of America. Private Eye productions / André Deutsch. Michael Gillard (1980) Nothing to declare: the political corruptions of John Poulson. John Calder. Howard, Anthony RAB: The Life of R. A. Butler, Jonathan Cape 1987 Reginald Maudling (1978) Memoirs. Sidgwick & Jackson. Robert Shepherd (2004) "Reginald Maudling" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. External links BBC News 'On this Day', includes a 1971 filmed interview on the Immigration Bill |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1917 births 1979 deaths Alcohol-related deaths in