Peregrine Maitland (6 July 1777 – 30 May 1854) was a British Army general who served in the Haitian Revolution, French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars.
Biography[]
Peregrine Maitland was born in Longparish, Hampshire, England on 6 July 1777, and he joined the British Army in 1791 and served in Flanders during the French Revolutionary Wars. Maitland later served in the Peninsular War in Spain before being promoted to Major-General in June 1815, serving in Prince William of Orange's I Corps as the commander of two battalions. He was knighted on 22 June 1815 for his service at the Battle of Waterloo, and he served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1818 to 1828 (succeeding Samuel Smith and preceding John Colborne), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1828 to 1834 (interrupting Thomas N. Jeffrey's terms), colonel of the 76th Regiment of Foot from 1834 to 1836, commander-in-chief of the Madras Army from 1836 to 1838, colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot from 1843 to 1854, and Governor of the Cape Colony from 1844 to 1847 (succeeding George Thomas Napier and preceding Henry Pottinger). Maitland was removed from the last post during the Xhosa Wars, and he died in London in 1854 at the age of 76.