About Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple
Lived 1803 – 1870 (aged 66–67). Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple was a judge and politician.
Edward Francis Maitland, Lord Barcaple (1803–1870) was a Scottish advocate and judge and Senator of the College of Justice.
Life
He was born at 36 George Square in Edinburgh on 16 April 1808, the son of Adam Maitland of Dundrennan. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied law at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MA.
The brother of Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan, he became an advocate in 1831, and served in government as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1855–1858 and from 1859–1862. He was appointed a Lord of Session, with the judicial title Lord Barcaple, in 1862. In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer was James Thomson Gibson-Craig.
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Scottish advocate and judge
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Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple was born in 1803.
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Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple died in 1870.
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Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple was a judge and politician.
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