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  John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1645), who was created Earl of Lauderdale in 1624, and of Lady Isabel Seton, daughter of Alexander, Earl of Dunfermline and great-grandson of Sir Richard Maitland, the poet, a member of an ancient family of Berwickshire, was born at Lethington.
Maitland began public life as a zealous adherent of the Presbyterian cause, took the covenant, sat as an elder in the assembly at St Andrews in July 1643, and was sent to England as a commissioner for the covenant in August, and to attend the Westminster assembly in November.
Lauderdale married (1) Lady Anne Home, daughter of the 1st earl of Home, by whom he had one daughter; and (2) Lady Elizabeth Murray, daughter of the 1st earl of Dysart and widow of Sir Lionel Tollemache.
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 J.K. Maitland, Earl Lauderdale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Scottish nobleman (he was the 8th Earl of Lauderdale), landlord and dilettante.
Interestingly, Lauderdale was among the first to propose that capital was a substitute, not a complement, of labor.
Lauderdale was also an early proponent of the underconsumption thesis, i.e.
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 JOHN MAITLAND, DUKE OF LAUDERDALE - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN MAITLAND, DUKE OF LAUDERDALE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lauderdale married (I) Lady Anne Home, daughter of the 1st earl of Home, by whom he had one daughter; and (2) Lady Elizabeth Murray, daughter of the 1st earl of Dysart and widow of Sir Lionel Tollemache.
James Maitland, 8th earl of Lauderdale (1759-1839), was a member of parliament from 1780 until August 1789 when he succeeded his father in the earldom.
By this time the earl, who had helped to found the Society of the Friends of the People in 1792, had somewhat modified his political views; this process was continued, and after acting as the leader of the Whigs in Scotland, Lauderdale became a Tory and voted against the Reform Bill of 1832.
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 Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As Lord Maitland he was lord-justice-general from 1681 to 1684; he was an adherent of James II and after fighting at the battle of the Boyne he was an exile in France until his death.
James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, matriculated arms in the character of Hereditary Standard Bearer of Scotland.
In 1952 the Lord Lyon decided that the Earl of Lauderdale's right was to bear the saltire as the Bearer of the National Flag of Scotland, whereas the Earl of Dundee as the Bearer of the Royal Banner bears the Royal Standard of the lion rampant.
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 EARL OF CROMARTY - LoveToKnow Article on EARL OF CROMARTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
CROMARTY, EARL OF GEORGE MACKENZIE, 1ST EARL OF (1630 1714), Scottish statesman, was the eldest son of Sir John Mackenzie, Bart., of Tarbat (d.
A period of retirement followed until 1678 when Mackenzie was appointed lord justice general of Scotland; in 1681 he became lord clerk register and a lord of session for the second time, and from 1682 to 1688 he was the chief minister of Charles II.
This earls eldest son was John Mackenzie, Lord Macleod (1727f 789), who shared his fathers fortunes in 745 and his fate in 1746.
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 Ft Lauderdale Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lauderdale is the name of the district enclosing the town of Lauder, and the valley of the Leader Water in Scotland:
The second Earl was created Duke of Lauderdale, but at the time of his death, the dukedom became extinct, while his earldom passed to his brother.
The Earl of Lauderdale, as The Bearer of the National Flag of Scotland, one of the Offices of the Royal Household in Scotland, has the right to bear the saltire.
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 The Lauderdale Maitlands
Lauderdale at once fell in with the views of the prelatical party ‘as warmly,’ says Guthrie, ‘as Middleton himself had done.’ This astonished Glencairn, who knew Lauderdale to be a violent Presbyterian by profession.
On the disgrace and dismissal of Middleton, in 1662, Lauderdale’s influence was greatly increased; and when Rothes was deprived of all his offices except that of Chancellor, in 1667, Lauderdale was nominated President of the Council, First Commissioner of the Treasury, Extraordinary Lord of Session, Lord of the Bedchamber, and Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
CHARLES, third Earl of Lauderdale, a Lord of Session, under the title of Lord Hatton or Halton, taken from an estate in Midlothian, which he obtained by marriage with the heiress of the ancient family of the Lauders.
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 LAUDER, SIR THOMAS DICK, BART. - LoveToKnow Article on LAUDER, SIR THOMAS DICK, BART.
While the nobles were in the church considering grievances, Robert Cochrane,recently created earl of Mar, one of the kings favorites, whose removal was at the very moment under discussion, demanded admittance.
Archibald Douglas, earl of Angus, opened the door and seized Mar, who was forthwith dragged to Lauder Bridge and there, along with six other obnoxious favorites, hanged in sight of his royal master.
The parish church was built in 1673 by the earl of Lauderdale, in exchange for the older edifice, the site of which was required for the enlargement of Thirlestane castle, which, originally a fortress, was then remodelled for a residence.
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 Clan MAITLAND
Sir Robert Maitland was in charge of Dunbar Castle but surrendered it to the Earl of Mar on his return to Scotland with Hotspur and Lord Talbot after the cancellation of the marriage of his daughter Lady Elizabeth Dunbar and David Duke of Rothesay.
John, 2nd Earl was a staunch supporter of Charles II and was made Secretary of State, Lord High Commissioner and Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
The Earls of Lauderdale are Hereditary Saltire Banner Bearers of Scotland.
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 Maitland Extracts
Bruce at all events became Earl of Carrick in his wife's right, and their eldest son, Robert, born in 1274, in his turn became Earl when his mother died in 1292 and his father resigned his title to him.
P374 MAITLAND, Honourable Frederic, was the sixth son of Charles, the sixth earl of Lauderdale, and the lady Elizabeth Ogilvy, daughter to James, earl of Finlater and Seafield.
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.
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On Clarendon's death in 1674 the manuscripts passed to his two sons, Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon, and Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester; and under the supervision of the latter a transcript of the _History_ was made for the printers.
Baron Weston 1628, and Earl of Portland 1633._ _Born 1577.
The Earle of Arrundell was the next to the officers of State, who in his owne right and quality, praeceded the rest of the councell.
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 A short account of the Maitlands of Lauderdale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Richard the 4th Earl of Lauderdale, son of Charles, was one of the Privy Council of Charles II and Lord Justice General and General of the Mint from 1681 to 1684.
Colonel Richard Maitland, one of the Earl’s nephews, distinguished himself at the capture of the capture of Quebec in 1759.
Frederick Henry became the 13th Earl of Lauderdale, Viscount Lauderdale and Maitland, Lord Thirlestane and Boltoun, Baronet of Nova Scotia and representative Peer of Scotland.
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 MyClan.com : Clan Carnegie : Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
James, second Earl of Southesk, attended on the king in exile, Charles II, in Holland in 1650 and was one of the Commissioners chosen for Scotland to sit in the Parliament of England during the Protectorate.
The younger son of the third Earl was not so fortunate in his duelling career and was killed in Paris in 1681 by William, son of the Duchess of Lauderdale.
The earl himself died in France in 1730, and the representation of the family then devolved on Sir James Carnegie of Pittarrow, who was descended from a younger son of the first Earl of Southesk.
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 Paras. 1-19. Burke, Edmund. 1909-14. A Letter to a Noble Lord. The Harvard Classics
To be ill spoken of, in whatever language they speak, by the zealots of the new sect in philosophy and politics, of which these noble persons think so charitably, and of which others think so justly, to me, is no matter of uneasiness or surprise.
To have incurred the displeasure of the Duke of Orleans or the Duke of Bedford, to fall under the censure of citizen Brissot or of his friend the Earl of Lauderdale, I ought to consider as proofs, not the least satisfactory, that I have produced some part to the effect I proposed by my endeavours.
I have to thank the Bedfords and the Lauderdales for having so faithfully and so fully acquitted towards me whatever arrear of debt was left undischarged by the Priestleys and the Paines.
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 History Today: `King of Scotland': Lauderdale and the Restoration North of the Border: Raymond Campbell Paterson ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
`King of Scotland': Lauderdale and the Restoration North of the Border: Raymond Campbell Paterson re-examines the fortunes and friendships of a key figure of Charles II's administration.
IN EARLY APRIL 1657 John Maitland, then Earl of Lauderdale (1616-82), wrote from his prison in Windsor Castle, one of the several places he had been confined in ever since his capture by Cromwell's troops after the Battle of Worcester in 1651, that `my days of action I think are at an end'.
But Lauderdale's career was far from over: in a very real sense it had hardly even begun.
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 MyClan.com : Clan Maitland : Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir Robert Maitland, William’s son, surrendered the Castle of Dunbar to the Earl of Douglas, and thereby escaped being involved in the subsequent ruin of his uncle, John.
Lauderdale was sent to Holland to persuade the Prince of Wales to join with the Scots.
Among their many honours the Earls of Lauderdale are hereditary bearers of the national flag of Scotland, a duty which they regularly perform on State occasions.
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 The WPA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Family of Maitland in Lauderdale, Scotland, of which Ian Colin Maitland, 15th Earl of Lauderdale, is the present head, is very distinguished and has been seated at Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, in the County of Berwick, for nearly eight centuries.
The present Earl of Lauderdale is descended from a son of the 7th Earl, from who also members of the American branch of the Maitland family are descended, the 10th, 11th and 12th Earls having died without leaving male issue.
In 1926 the late Countess of Lauderdale and the present Earl of Lauderdale (then Lord Thirlestane) went to Fort Lauderdale and presented to the city some stones from the original fort of the Maitland family at Lauder, Scotland.
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 Journalism.org - Resources We Offer - Education & Training - Forums and Speeches - CCJ Forums - A Status Report and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It aired live from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and was a part of the Hispanic Journalists Convention.
It was sponsored by the Forth Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and the Committee of Concerned Journalists.
In the first hour the Editor of the Forth Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Earl Maucker, along with Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel from the Committee discussed journalism's trust and reliability among citizens as perhaps the most worrisome condition in journalism right now.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Election epitomizes stalled efforts to reform Britain's ancient House of ...
The 17th Earl Lauderdale, 91, the oldest candidate in the race, disagrees.
Earl Lauderdale said the 700-year-old House of Lords never was intended to be more democratic than Britain's monarchy.
He believes the upper chamber's sense of tradition and cool reflection sometimes has saved Britain from the mood swings and obsession with public opinion by that "rough lot" in the lower chamber – the House of Commons.
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 35, The Merse / Berwickshire - Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Indeed Lauderdale is actually part of the Merse, formerly the patrimony of the Morvilles (who were foreigners and whose line is now extinct), Constables of Scotland.
At the ruin of that family, condemned for treason, Lauderdale was annexed to the King’s patrimony and as is normal in royal estates has its own Judge or Bailie; this magistracy is exercised by the noble Lord John Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale.
In the north it is enclosed by a stream which flows past Dunglass, the castle of the Earl of Hume.
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 Lords Hansard text for 5 Jun 1996 (160605-12)
As the noble Earl said, the Bill was discussed at considerable length at the various stages in another place and in the course of those continuing debates references were made to the Advertising Standards Authority, of which I am chairman.
As my noble friend Lord Lauderdale has indicated, the Bill as introduced was closely based upon proposals which were previously under consideration between my right honourable friend the Home Secretary and the Association of Chief Police Officers, and which therefore naturally have the full support of the Government.
The Government are grateful to my noble friend Lord Lauderdale for agreeing to take forward this important measure and for the support which all of the proposals in the Bill have received on all sides of the House.
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 MIDDLETON, John, 1st Earl of (1619-74) - ScotWars
Unusually for a future earl Middleton's origins were obscure and probably humble He first appears as a pikeman in the regiment raised in 1632-3 by Sir John Hepburn for service in France.
He returned to the court-in-exile, was created earl (1656) and, at the Restoration, Royal Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament.
Middleton fanned this jealousy by falling out with John Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale, and by supporting the reimposition of episcopacy.
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 Illustrated Guide to Places to Visit - Thirlstane Castle
The 2nd Earl of Lauderdale (later Duke) was imprisoned for nine years in the Tower of London for this loyalty.
Thirlstane abounds in portraits of the various Earls of Lauderdale, the walls in the dining room in particular is covered in these.
The dining room chairs were originally made specially for the Duchess of Richmond in Brussels and were used at a grand ball on the eve of the battle of Waterloo.
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 Hampstead Heath   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lauderdale House was one of the finest county houses in Highgate.
In 1645 it was inherited by the Earl of Lauderdale (hence its name) and in 1666 it was visited by Charles II and Samuel Pepys, while Nell Gwynn is said to have lived there briefly in 1670.
It was converted to a neo-classical style in 1760, and John Wesley preached here in 1782, and in 1882 the then owner, Sir Sydney Waterlow, the famous printer, gave it 'for the enjoyment of Londoners'.
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 Gathering of the Clans - Devoted To All Things Scottish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Evidence indicates that the Maitlands are descended from one of the companions of William the Conqueror who later settled in Northumberland.
Later, in 1616, his nephew was made first Earl of Lauderdale.
The current Earls of Lauderdale, who are descendants of William Maitland, are the hereditary bearers of the national flag of Scotland, a duty they regularly perform on State occasions.
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 TWELFTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
EMAIL US John Maitland 1st Duke of Lauderdale was born in 1585.
Duke of Lauderdale John Maitland was born in 1616.
Lord Lauderdale Charles Maitland 3rd Earl of Lauderdale.
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 Lords Hansard text for 22 Jun 1999 (190622-30)
On the other hand, the noble Earl is either a Member of the House or he is not.
My Lords, I was extremely grateful when the noble Earl, Lord Lauderdale, wrote to me to give me advance notice that he was putting down this amendment.
It must be admitted that an unfortunate consequence of the Bill when it is enacted will be a diminution, at least for a time, of the relationship between this House and the many charitable and welfare organisations that rely upon members of the hereditary peerage to provide connections.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 63   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Maitland, Alfred Sydney Frederick, Earl of Lauderdale 16th, b.
Maitland, Frederick Colin, Earl of Lauderdale 14th, b.
Maitland, Frederick Henry, Earl of Lauderdale 13th, b.
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