Regency Personalities Series-Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Maitland

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Regency Personalities Series

In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Maitland
10 March 1760 – 17 January 1824

Thomas Maitland

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Maitland was commissioned into the Edinburgh Light Horse, shortly after his birth, but did not take up his commission until he joined the 78th Foot as a Captain in 1778. He transferred to the 72nd Foot,...