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 LAUDKRDALE. 29 [James Maitland, styled Viscount Maitland, 1st s. and h. ap., h. about lt>80 ; M. (contract ilat. 31 Aug. 1702), Jean, 1st fin. of John (Gordon), Eari. of SCTHERLASD [S.] He <f. v.p. and B.p.jn.(») 1709. His widow d. at Edinburgh 11 Feb. 1747, aged 67.] VI. 1710. 6. Charles (Maitland), Eaul of Lauderdale, <fec. [S.], 2d but 1st snrv. s. and h. male ; b. about 1688 ; staled Viscount Maitland from 17011 till lie sue. to the pttragt [S.J pa 30 Aug. 1710 ; an oilicer in 1715 al the battle of Sherimnuir ; Lord Lieut, and Sheriff of Midlothian ; Master of the Mint [§.]; lltr. 1'kkk [S.], 1741-44. He m. about 1711 Klizabeth, 1st da. of James (Ocin.YY), 4th K.Mil. or l'lNDi.ATKit [S.], sometime High Chancellor [S.J, by Anne, da. of Sir William Dlnhau, Hart. [S.] He (/. at Hatton, 15 July 174 I, in his 56th year. SW entry in Lyon office. Will pr. 17 !">.(_<>) His widow d. at Bath 24 Sep. 1778. VII. 1714. ~. James (Maitland), Earl o* Lauderdale, &c. [S.], and h., b. 23 Jan. 1718 ; staled Viscount Maitland till he sue. to the jutragt [S.], liS July 1711. Having served in the Army from 1740. he became Lieut Col. in 1 7 4 T» but resigned in 1706. R«P. I'kku [S.]. 1747-89; a Lord of Police, 1766-82. He ni., 24 April 1749, at Merton, co. Surrey (she being then in her 15th year) Mary, da. and h. lor coheir) of Sir Thonnis LoJIBb - ,{ <I ) Alderman (and 1727-28 Sheriff) of Loudon, by Klizabeth, da. of John TVnNKIi, of He len in Kingston, co. Kent. She d. at Hatton, 20 July 17S9, aged 55. He d. there 17 Aug. 17S9, aged 71. Will pr. 1789. [Valdave Charles Lauder Maitland, etj/led Viscount Maitland, 1st s. and h. ap., 11 Dec. 1752 ; d. young ami v.p. 5 Sep. 1754, at Hatton.] VIII. 1789. o' and 1. James (Maitland), Eaul of Lauderdale, Baionv fD K 1 *°' & " ' ^V* lst surv - s - "'"^ °- ~ ,; ,lilu - 1759, at Hatton ; y 1 " -J Haled Viscount MaITLAND till 17S9, being (as such) ed. at the ]. 1S0G. Univs. of Edinburgh. Glasgow, and Paris ; Member of the Faculty of Advocates. 1780 ; M.P. for Newport. CO. Cornwall, 1780-84, and for Mahnesbury, 1784-89 ( being an anient '•' Jacobin." and calling himself "Citizen Maitland") till he tuc. to the peerage [S.], 17 Aug. 1789. Uep. l'F.F.n [S.] 1790.( u ) On the dissolution of the Pitt Ministry he obtained a peerage [I'.K.], being cr., 22 Keb. 180«, BARON LAUDERDALE OF THIULESTANE, co. Berwick. He was Joint Commissioner' to France, 1 Aug. 1806 : l'.C, 1S06, and for a short time (1806-07) Keeper of the Croat Seal [S.] 'K.T. (1821!) He ft, 15 Aug. 1782. at Walfhamstow. lissc.v, Eleanor, da. and tl. of Anthony Todd. Sec. of the Gen. Post Office, by Ann, da. and h. of Christopher KolilNsON. of Appleby, Westmorland. He d. 15 Sep. 1839, aged 80, at Thirlestade Castle (') Will pr. Oct. 1839. His widow d. there 16 Sep. 1856, aged 91. W ill pr. Oct. 1856. Both were bin: at Haddington. («■) His only da. and h., Jean, was the ktir of line to the Earls of Glencairu. See vol. iv, p. 33, note " a," tub " Glencairu : ' (•>) " A nobleman of the sweetest disposition and finest accomplishments." [Wood's " DougUu."] (<=) He d, 3 Jan. 173S/9, at his house in St. Olave's Jury, London, worth £120,000, having been the discoverer of the best method of silk-manufacture in 1719, fur which, when in 1732 the patent expired, he received £14,000 from Pari. ol) He obtained £1,000 (in full of his claim for £S,000) for the regality of Thirslestane and the bailiary of Lauderdale under the act for abolishing heritable jurisdictions. (°) '• This nobleman was throughout most of his life an impetuous advocate of popular opinions. Ho was the friend of Brissot, the dupe of Bonaparte, and finally died the opponent of Lord Grey's Reform Government." [Note by Dr. Dorau in Wraxall's " Memnirs" edit. 1884, vol. ii, p. 78.] It appears from the obituary notice of him in the " Anniutl Register'' of 1839 that his political views "underwent a complete change " about 1820, and that, 10 years later, at the date of Reform Bill,
 * t he may be considered as the main spring and mover of the high Tory party among

the Scotch peerage."