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Rh Physicians, July 1842. He practised for a few years at Windsor with success. But his tastes drew him more towards theology, and he matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1848, graduated B.A. (with a second class in classics) 1852, and was ordained deacon in the same year, and priest in the year following. He was at first curate at Southampton, then at Lyndhurst, Hampshire, and afterwards in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. But his mind gave way; and after being for some years separated from his family, he died in London, 26 July 1866, and was buried in the Brompton cemetery.

While at Rome Maitland was attracted by the catacombs, and, being a good amateur artist, made numerous drawings, which still exist. In 1846 he published ‘The Church in the Catacombs: a Description of the Primitive Church of Rome, illustrated by its Sepulchral Remains,’ London, 8vo. This was the first popular book on the subject, was generally accurate, and abounded in information. While still an undergraduate at Oxford he published ‘The Apostles' School of Prophetic Interpretation: with its History down to the Present Time,’ London, 1849, 8vo—an attack on the current protestant school of interpretation of prophecy, then mainly represented by Edward B. Elliott [q.v.] in his ‘Horæ Apocalypticæ.’

In November 1842 he married Julia Charlotte, widow of James Thomas, an Indian judge in the Madras presidency. Her maiden name was Barrett, and her mother was a niece of Fanny Burney, Madame d'Arblay [see ]. She was the authoress of some clever ‘Letters from Madras during the Years 1836 to 1839,’ published anonymously, 1843, and reprinted in Murray's ‘Home and Colonial Library,’ 1846. She also wrote some bright little books for children, which passed through several editions: ‘Historical Charades,’ 1847, new edit. 1858; ‘Cat and Dog,’ 5th edit. 1858; ‘The Doll and her Friends,’ 5th edit. 1868. She died at Stowe Provost, near Shaftesbury, 29 Jan. 1864.

 MAITLAND, FREDERICK (1763–1848), general, born on 3 Sept. 1763, was youngest son of General Hon. Sir Alexander Maitland, bart., colonel 49th foot (d. 1820), by his wife, Penelope, daughter of Colonel Martin Madan, M.P., and sister of Martin Madan, bishop of Peterborough [q. v.] Charles Maitland, sixth earl of Lauderdale [see under, fifth earl], was his grandfather. On 1 Sept. 1779 Frederick was appointed ensign 14th foot, in which he became lieutenant on 19 Sept. 1782. He served with a company of his regiment doing duty as marines in the Union, 90 guns, Captain J. Dalrymple, in the Channel, in 1779–80, and on board Admiral Darby's fleet at the relief of Gibraltar in 1782 [see ]. He afterwards served fifteen months in Jamaica. In 1784 he was transferred to the 30th foot, was placed on half-pay, and devoted his leisure to study. In 1787 he went back to the West Indies, and was some time assistant quartermaster-general in Jamaica. He obtained his company in the 60th royal Americans in 1789, and brought the despatches announcing the capture of Tobago in April 1793. The Fairy sloop, 18 guns, Captain John Laforey [q. v.], in which he came home, was engaged during the voyage with a French 32-gun frigate, which escaped. Maitland was brevet major and aide-de-camp to Sir Charles Grey [see, first ] at the relief of Nieuport and Ostend in 1794, and deputy adjutant-general, with the brevet of lieutenant-colonel, at the capture of Martinique, Guadaloupe, and St. Lucia in the same year. He was promoted major 9th foot in 1794, and lieutenant-colonel in 1795, when he was transferred to the 27th Inniskillings. He went back to the West Indies in 1795, as military secretary to Sir Ralph Abercromby, with whom he served at St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Porto Rico, and elsewhere, in 1795–7. Returning home in the Arethusa, 38 guns, Captain T. Woolley, he was present and commanded the cabin guns of the frigate at the capture of the French corvette, La Gaieté, 125 leagues east by south of Bermuda, on 20 Aug. 1797. He afterwards served on Abercromby's staff in Scotland, and in the expedition to Holland in 1799. As a brevet-colonel he returned once more to the West Indies in 1800, and was quartermaster-general there for six years. He commanded a brigade at the reduction of the Danish, Swedish, and Dutch West India islands in 1800–1. He was transferred as lieutenant-colonel from the Inniskillings to the 29th foot, was appointed brigadier-general in 1804, and commanded a brigade at the capture of Surinam. He became a major-general in 1805, and in 1807 was second in command, under General Bowyer, at the recapture of the Dutch and Danish islands, which had been restored at the peace of Amiens. At St. Thomas's he received the sword of the governor, Van Schogen, on the selfsame spot that he had received it six years before. He commanded a brigade at the capture of Martinique in 1809 (gold medal) and the subsequent operations at Les Saintes.

Maitland was appointed lieutenant-gover-