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Richard ("the poet who inspired the Maitland Club") Maitland, of Thirlestane (Berwickshire) and Lethington (Haddingtonshire)

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Sir Richard Maitland Signature

Birth

Working life

• On 20 December 1562 Richard ("the poet who inspired the Maitland Club") Maitland, of Thirlestane (Berwickshire) and Lethington (Haddingtonshire), was occupied as Keeper of the Privy Seal.³
• In 1563 Richard ("the poet who inspired the Maitland Club") Maitland, of Thirlestane (Berwickshire) and Lethington (Haddingtonshire), was occupied as joint Factors, Economists and Chamberlains of the Abbess of Haddington.³
• In 1567 Richard ("the poet who inspired the Maitland Club") Maitland, of Thirlestane (Berwickshire) and Lethington (Haddingtonshire), was occupied as resigned as Keeper of the Privy Seal in favour of his son John.⁴
• On 11 May 1584 Richard ("the poet who inspired the Maitland Club") Maitland, of Thirlestane (Berwickshire) and Lethington (Haddingtonshire), was occupied as was relieved of his judicial duties by an act of sederunty due to his great age, those duties deputed to his son John.⁵

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Citations

1. [S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: accessed 11 March 2025), Richard Maitland.
2. [S123] John Bain, Editor, The Poems of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun: with an Appendix of selections from the poems of Sir John Maitland and of Thomas Maitland (Glasgow: The Maitland Club, 1830), p ix; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/poemsofsirrichar00mait : viewed 19 May 2025.
3. [S123] John Bain, Editor, The Poems of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun: with an Appendix of selections from the poems of Sir John Maitland and of Thomas Maitland (Glasgow: The Maitland Club, 1830), p xxxv; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/poemsofsirrichar00mait : viewed 19 May 2025.
4. [S123] John Bain, Editor, The Poems of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun: with an Appendix of selections from the poems of Sir John Maitland and of Thomas Maitland (Glasgow: The Maitland Club, 1830), p xxxvii; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/poemsofsirrichar00mait : viewed 19 May 2025.
5. [S123] John Bain, Editor, The Poems of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun: with an Appendix of selections from the poems of Sir John Maitland and of Thomas Maitland (Glasgow: The Maitland Club, 1830), p liv; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/poemsofsirrichar00mait : viewed 19 May 2025.
6. [S123] John Bain, Editor, The Poems of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun: with an Appendix of selections from the poems of Sir John Maitland and of Thomas Maitland (Glasgow: The Maitland Club, 1830), p lii; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/poemsofsirrichar00mait : viewed 19 May 2025.
7. [S148] editor P Hume Brown, "Sir Richard Maitland," The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol iii, 1578-1585 (1877), online image (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112079780356&seq=726 : viewed 11 August 2025), p 633.
8. [S123] John Bain, Editor, The Poems of Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun: with an Appendix of selections from the poems of Sir John Maitland and of Thomas Maitland (Glasgow: The Maitland Club, 1830), p lix; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/poemsofsirrichar00mait : viewed 19 May 2025.