Lauderdale Maule
Lauderdale Maule,
DL (27 March 1807 – 1 August 1854) was a Scottish soldier, the second son of the Lord Panmure
.
Life
Born at
lieutenant-colonel
on 14 June 1842 after succeeding to command of the 79th.
He was appointed a
Forfarshire in 1850, and was Member of Parliament for that shire from 1852 until 1854. He retired from the Army in 1852, but was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance on 15 January 1853. During the Crimean War, while carrying out his duties at Varna, he contracted cholera, and died of the disease in a military hospital in Constantinople.[1]
His parents lived at Barton House In Edinburgh and so he would have spent periods of leave there.
He is memorialized in Panbride Church on the east coast of Scotland.[1]
A huge memorial to Maule and the Regiment stands at the centre of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.[2]
References
- ^ a b Warden, Alex Johnston (1885). Angus Or Forfarshire: The Land and People, Descriptive and Historical. C. Alexander & Company.
- ^ Scottish Highland Clans and Regiments, Victorian publication
- "Maule Family". Retrieved 13 January 2007.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
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