John Maitland

Lieutenant-Colonel John Maitland (24 November 1733 – 22 October 1779) was a British Army officer and politician who represented Haddington Burghs in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1774 to 1779.

Maitland was the eighth surviving son of Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Ogilvy, daughter of James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater. He became a Captain in the Royal Marines on 22 March 1757 and served in the Seven Years' War, losing his right arm in action. When peace came in 1763 he went onto half-pay.

For over a century, he was interred The Graham Vault in Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery, alongside his rival Nathanael Greene. In 1981, Dr. Preston Russell gained permission from the city to enter the tomb. He took Maitland's remains back to his native Scotland.