whom, in Sept. 1802, he accompanied into the Naiad 38, commanded subsequently by Capt. Thos. Dundas, and employed as one of Lord Nelson’s repeaters in the battle of Trafalgar. Being awarded a second promotal commission 21 Jan. 1806, Capt. Mainwaring assumed command, 23 Dec. following, of the Tartarus fire-ship; and in Aug. 1807 was charged with the landing of the troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley in Wibeck Bay, preparatory to the investment of Copenhagen. In the early part of 1808 he removed to the Vanguard 74, the first ship of her class that ever wintered in the Baltic. After he had commanded her for a period of six months he went back to the Tartarus, in which vessel we find him, in 1810, sinking two French privateers off Pillau,[1] and then conveying Gustavus, the ex-King of Sweden, from Riga to England, under circumstances of a particularly difficult and singular nature. He was promoted for the latter service to the rank of Captain 27 Nov. 1810; and was intrusted, during the last two years of the war, with the command of the Royal George 100, on the Mediterranean station. He accepted his present rank 1 Oct. 1846.
Rear-Admiral Mainwaring married, first, in 1811, Mary Anne, daughter of Bacon Frank, Esq., of Campsall, near Doncaster; and (having been left a widower in 1840) secondly, 14 Dec. 1841, Cecilia Charlotte, only daughter of the late Dean of Durham and the Hon. Mrs. Hall. By his first wife he has issue.
MAITLAND, K.C.M.G., C.B. (Rear-Admiral of the White, 1841. f-p., 19; h-p., 33.)
The Honourable Sir Anthony Maitland, born 10 June, 1785, is second son of James, eighth Earl of Lauderdale, K.T., by Eleanor, only daughter of Anthony Todd, Esq.; brother (with Colonel Hon. John Maitland, who died in 1839) of the present Earl; nephew of Lieut.-General Hon. Sir Thos. Maitland, G.C.B., Governor of Malta and the Ionian Islands, who died in 1824; and cousin of the present Capt. Sir Thos. Maitland, R.N., Kt., C.B., and of Commanders James, Lewis, and William Heriot, Maitland, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 Oct. 1795, as Admiral’s Servant, on board the Victory 100, Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey, on the books of which ship, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of the late Earl St. Vincent, his name was borne until June, 1796. In Oct. 1798 he became Midshipman, under the same nobleman, in the Ville de Paris 110; and he next, from Jan. 1801 until Dec. 1803, served with Capt. Sir John Gore in the Triton and Medusa frigates. In the latter vessel, which bore the flag at the time of Lord Nelson, we find him particularly distinguishing himself and severely wounded in an attack made in Aug. 1801 on the Boulogne flotilla.[2] On leaving the Medusa he rejoined his Lordship, as a Supernumerary, on board the Victory, then again in the Mediterranean, where, in Aug. 1804, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Childers sloop, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 2 Feb. 1805, and after officiating for some months in that capacity in the Blenheim 74, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. Troubridge, was made Commander, 6 May, 1806, into the Arrogant guard-ship at Bombay. He attained Post-rank 25 Sept. in the same year; and was next appointed – 1 Aug. 1811, to the Pique 36, in which ship he was for four years and a half employed on the Downs, Lisbon, Brazilian, and West India stations, capturing, during that period, the Hawk American privateer, of 5 guns and 68 men – and 19 Feb. 1816, to the Glasgow 50, part of the force engaged under Lord Exmouth at the bombardment of Algiers.[3] On 21 Aug. 1817, Capt. Maitland, who had paid the Glasgow off in the preceding Nov., recommissioned that ship. He served in her in the Mediterranean until March, 1821, and has since been on half-pay. He acquired flag-rank 23 Nov. 1841.
The Rear-Admiral, who was nominated a C.B. for his conduct at Algiers, 19 Sept. 1816, and in 1832 created a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, sat for some time in Parliament as member for co. Berwick; of which shire he is now a Deputy-Lieutenant. In Aug. 1830 he was appointed a Naval Aide-de-Camp to King William IV.; and he continued to hold the same office under her present Majesty until the date of his promotion.
MAITLAND. (Commander, 1836. f-p., 16; h-p., 13.)
James Maitland, born 18 April, 1806, is second surviving son of the late Chas. Maitland, Esq., of Rankeilour, co. Fife, by Mary, eldest daughter of David Johnston, Esq., of Latheisk, in the same shire. He is brother of Commander Lewis Maitland, R.N.; nephew of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland, K.C.B.,[4] who made him his heir; first-cousin of the present Commander Wm. Heriot Maitland, R.N.; and cousin also of Rear-Admiral Hon. Sir Anthony Maitland, C.B., K.C.M.G., and Capt. Sir Thos. Maitland, R.N., Kt., C.B. His grandfather, Hon. Fred. Lewis Maitland, a Captain in the R.N., was son of Charles, sixth Earl of Lauderdale, and had one brother, Richard, a Colonel in the Army, and another, John, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.M. He commanded the Elizabeth 74 in Keppel and Rodney’s actions, and afterwards captured a French 64-gun ship.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 Dec. 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Vengeur 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and during the two following years was employed on the North Sea, South American, and Mediterranean stations. He then, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 July, 1826, served as Midshipman and Mate, again in South America, as also at Portsmouth and in the West Indies, in the Aurora 46, Capt. Henry Prescott, Ganges 84, Capt. Patrick Campbell, and Alligator 28. He next cruized for some months on the station last mentioned in the Ferret 10, Capt. Henry Gosset, and was subsequently appointed – 18 Jan. 1828, to the Tribune 42, Capts. John Wilson and John Alex. Duntze, attached to the force in the Pacific, whence he returned home at the close of 1831 – 17 Oct. 1832, to the Portsmouth yacht, as Flag-Lieutenant to his uncle. Sir F. L. Maitland, Admiral-Superintendent at that port – and 2 Sept. 1834, in a similar capacity, to the Thalia 46, bearing the flag at the Cape of Good Hope of Rear-Admiral Patrick Campbell. He went on half-pay in the summer of 1835, and has not been since afloat. He acquired his present rank 9 May, 1836.
Commander Maitland (the Senior of his rank on the List of 1836) married, first, in March, 1836, Emma, daughter of Thos. Magne Willing, Esq., of Philadelphia; and (that lady dying in June, 1838) secondly, 20 Aug. 1840, Frances Harriet, daughter of the late Rich. Sam. Short, Esq., of Edilngton Grove, Lincolnshire. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
MAITLAND. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 19; h-p., 3.)
Lewis Maitland, born 12 April, 1811, is brother of Commander Jas. Maitland, R.N.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 1663.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1801, p. 1006.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1816, p. 1792.
- ↑ Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland was born in 1776. He served as Midshipman of the Southampton 32 in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1794; was employed, while holding the rank of Commander, in the expedition to Egypt in 1801; attained Post-rank in the course of that year; and had command, during the late war, of the Loire and Emerald frigates (see Capt. Charles Bertram), Goliath 58, Boyne 98, and Bellerophon 74. In the ship last mentioned he had the honour of receiving Napoleon Buonaparte when he surrendered after the battle of Waterloo. Duiing the peace he commanded the Vengeur, Genoa, and Wellesley 74’s. He was nominated a C.B. in 1815; advanced to Flag-rank in July, 1830; and created a K.C.B. in the following November. He filled the office of Admiral-Superintendent at Portsmouth from June, 1832, until July, 1837; and that of Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies from the latter period uatil the date of his death, 30 Nov. 1889.
