David Freud, Baron Freud David Freud, Baron Freud David Anthony Freud, Baron Freud, PC (born 24 June 1950) is a British politician. He is a former Minister of State for Welfare Reform in the Conservative Government of the United Kingdom. Before he joined the Conservative Party, he advised New Labour on welfare reform during its final term of office. He is a past vice-chairman of investment banking at UBS. He stepped down from his government role at the end of December 2016. Freud is the son of Walter Freud and a great-grandson of the physician and pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. He was educated at
Lucian Freud million. On 13 October 2011, his 1952 "Boy's Head", a small portrait of Charlie Lumley, his neighbour, reached $4,998,088 at Sotheby's London contemporary art evening auction, making it one of the highlights of the 2011 auction autumn season. In 2012, Freud was among the British cultural icons selected by pop artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of the last six decades. Freud is rumoured to have fathered as many as forty children although