The Earl of Lauderdale
PredecessorFrederick Maitland
SuccessorAlfred Maitland
BornIan Colin Maitland
(1891-01-30)30 January 1891
Died17 February 1953(1953-02-17) (aged 62)
Spouse(s)Ethel Mary Ivy
FatherFrederick Maitland, 14th Earl of Lauderdale
MotherGwendoline Lucy

Ian Colin Maitland, 15th Earl of Lauderdale DL (30 January 1891 – 17 February 1953), styled Viscount Maitland between 1924 and 1931, was a representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords from 1931 to 1945.

Maitland was the only child of Frederick Maitland, 14th Earl of Lauderdale by his wife Gwendoline Lucy (d. 30 January 1929),[1] daughter of Robert Vaughan Williams, a judge, of Bodlonfa, Flintshire. He succeeded to the titles upon his father's death in 1931.

Educated at Eton College, Maitland saw active service in the First World War. He was a Major in the 3rd Reserve Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in 1915–1916, and in 1918 was Aide-de-Camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

He was also a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the King's Bodyguard for Scotland, and a Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire.

He was president of the Southampton Conservative Association, 1931–1935, and Honorary President of the Association of Certified and Corporate Accountants from 1931 to 1945.

In 1943, he was caught having sex with a kitchen porter, Robert Wilson, in an alleyway in Soho. So deferential was society in those days that the judge ordered the jury to find him not guilty, even though Wilson was jailed for nine months for engaging in homosexual sex, which at the time was illegal.[citation needed]

Family

Lord Lauderdale married Ethel Mary Ivy (died 1971 or 1972), eldest daughter of James Jardine Bell-Irving of Makerstoun, Roxburghshire, on 11 November 1912. They resided at Thirlestane Castle, near Lauder, Berwickshire, and had two children:

References

  1. ^ Ancestry. Retrieved 9 December 2008
  2. ^ Helena, Viscountess Maitland's date of birth is from the National Portrait Gallery site. She was daughter of Sir Herbert Charles Perrott, 5th and 1st Bt. (1849-1922) by his wife Ethel Lucy Hare, and sister of Marie Louise Priscilla, Baroness Forester (b. 1909-), wife of the 7th Baron Forester since 1931. Sir Herbert Charles Perrott was created a baronet in his own right 1911 and inherited an older baronetcy of 1716 in 1886. He married 1901 Ethel Lucy Hare, eldest dau. of the late Captain Marcus Augustus Stanley Hare, R.N., of Court Grange, Newton Abbott, by his wife Matilda Jane Tollemache, daughter of William and Lady Anna Maria Tollemache. See Burke's Peerage & Baronetage 1912 (online version, with some OCR errors) and Leo Van Der Pas: Descendants of King Henry VIII of England: XI-212 (X-103-1) Archived 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine for full details.
  3. ^ Michael Rhodes " Births,Marriages,Deaths, Earls Families, 1999" alt.talk.royalty, 14 November 2001.

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Peerage of Scotland Preceded byFrederick Maitland Earl of Lauderdale 1931–1953 Succeeded byAlfred Maitland
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