{"id":4446,"date":"2021-08-12T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/?page_id=4446"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T10:05:10","slug":"stephen-maddox-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/stephen-maddox-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Maddox – Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Steve Maddox was born in Bootle in 1953, the son of Ben and Jean Maddox. His\u00a0father had many jobs during his life and retired on at least six occasions – the\u00a0last was six years ago when, at 83, he retired for the last time as the oldest\u00a0taxi driver in Southport!<\/p>

His mother worked for Vernons Pools in Aintree for over twenty years before\u00a0she retired in the late 1980s having reached the extremely responsible position\u00a0of Claims Supervisor.<\/p>

Steve Maddox lived in Bootle throughout his childhood, which was rather nomadic, as he attended no less than five different primary schools; but this did not prevent him passing the entrance examination to Merchant Taylors School Crosby. However he never forgot that he would have not have been able to go to that school without the considerable financial support of a wonderful local authority, the County Borough of Bootle, under the direct grant scheme which existed at the time.<\/p>

The early years at Merchants were a little difficult but things improved and,\u00a0overall, he enjoyed his time there very much.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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He left school in 1971 to attend the University of Kent at Canterbury, which\u00a0he chose solely because it was a long way away, fearing that if he chose a\u00a0University too close to home his Mum would come to visit him every weekend!<\/p>

It was a good choice and he enjoyed a fabulous three years in Canterbury. Regrettably academic study was not a significant priority but he did get an average law degree (2:2) and most importantly, met Jenn who has been his wife and best friend for over 36 years.<\/p>

Jenn\u00a0 is a partner in Liverpool\u2019s oldest and most prestigious firm of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, W.P Thompson and Co. of Church Street. Steve and Jenn Maddox have two sons of whom they are immensely proud; Peter (an Evertonian) who has just returned home having spent four years teaching English in China and South Korea; and Robby (a Liverpudlian) who is now in\u00a0London studying for his Bar finals.\u00a0<\/p>

On leaving University Steve Maddox applied to Wirral Council to become what was then called an articled clerk. He records that this was one of the best\u00a0decisions of his life since he was to spend his entire working career of more\u00a0than thirty six years with Wirral \u2013 a career which he enjoyed tremendously.<\/p>

Outside of his work within the Council he was a Governor of Wirral\u00a0Metropolitan College for ten years until his retirement in 2010 and very much\u00a0enjoyed spells as a Governor of two Wirral schools, Fender Primary in Woodchurch\u00a0and Black Horse Hill Juniors in West Kirby. He became the Clerk to the\u00a0Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority, Merseytravel, in 1998 – a post which\u00a0he still holds.<\/p>

Steve Maddox retired as the Council\u2019s Chief Executive in October 2010 – having held this post for thirteen years. He was awarded the O.B.E for services to local\u00a0government in 2008 and, even more importantly for him, was awarded the honour of\u00a0the Freedom of the Borough of Wirral in November 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mr Stephen Maddox OBE DL << Deputy Lieutenants H – P Steve Maddox was born in Bootle in 1953, the son of Ben and Jean Maddox. His\u00a0father had many jobs during his life and retired on at least six occasions – the\u00a0last was six years ago when, at 83, he retired for the last time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4446","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}