| 词条 | Frederick Maitland, 14th Earl of Lauderdale |
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Frederick Colin Maitland, 14th Earl of Lauderdale OBE DL (12 April 1868 – 14 September 1931) was a Scottish peer and landowner. Known by the courtesy title of Viscount Maitland before he inherited the earldom, he fought in the Second Boer War and later in the First World War. Lauderdale was a Scottish representative peer, with a seat in the House of Lords, from 1929 until his death.[1] LifeThe elder son of the 13th Earl of Lauderdale, by his first wife, Charlotte Sleigh, a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sleigh of the 77th Foot, Maitland was commissioned into the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1886, transferred to the 2nd Dragoons in 1887 and to the Scots Guards in 1894. He saw active service in South Africa in 1900–1901, when he was mentioned in despatches, then was Assistant Director of Auxiliary Forces on the Headquarters Staff from 1904 to 1908. He saw further active service in the European War of 1914–1918, in which he was wounded. He was appointed OBE in 1919 and succeeded his father in 1924, taking up residence at Thirlestane Castle near Lauder in Scotland.[2] In 1929 Lauderdale was elected a Representative Peer for Scotland.[1][2] In 1890, he married Gwendoline Lucy, a younger daughter of Judge Robert Vaughan-Williams of Bodlonfla, Flintshire, and they had one son, Ian, who succeeded his father in 1931.[1][2] Honours
Notes1. ^1 2 3 Charles Mosley, ed., Burke's Peerage & Baronetage (106th edition, 1999, vol. II, {{ISBN|2-940085-02-1}}) p. 1,647 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lauderdale, Frederick Maitland, 14th Earl of}}2. ^1 2 3 4 'Lauderdale, 14th Earl of' in Who Was Who, online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 21 February 2014] (subscription site) 9 : 1868 births|1931 deaths|British Army personnel of World War I|Deputy Lieutenants of Berwickshire|Earls of Lauderdale|Officers of the Order of the British Empire|Scots Guards officers|Members of the Royal Company of Archers|Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms |
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