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| | SIR RICHARD MAITLAND - LoveToKnow Article on SIR RICHARD MAITLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | (LORD LETHINGTON) (1496 1586), Scottish lawyer, poet, and collector of Scottish verse, was born in. |
 | | His father, Sir William Maitland of Lethington and Thirlestane, fell at Flodden; his mother was a daughter of George, Lord Seton. |
 | | 1545-1595), was a lord of session, and was made a lord of parliament in 1590, with the title of Lord Maitland of Thirlestane, in which he was succeeded by his son John, also for some time a lord of session, who was created earl of Lauderdale in 1624. |
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