Lieutenant-Commander Stephen Lynch Conway Maydon DSO DSC (15 December 1913 – 2 March 1971) was a British Navy officer and Conservative politician.

[1] His father John, after whom Maydon Wharf in Durban is named, was a member of the Natal Legislative Assembly and he was born in Pietermaritzburg.

[citation needed] After the 1959 general election, Maydon was Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Party Defence Committee for two years.

Harold Macmillan brought him into government as Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance from July 1962, where he served alongside Margaret Thatcher.

[citation needed] Maydon was a right-winger who supported the use of corporal punishment, arguing that it was an effective sentence as a last resort.