A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Maitland, Lewis
MAITLAND. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 19; h-p., 3.)
Lewis Maitland, born 12 April, 1811, is brother of Commander Jas. Maitland, R.N. This officer entered the Royal Naval College 28 Dec. 1825; and embarked, in March, 1827, as a Volunteer, on board the Wellesley 74, commanded by his uncle, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, at first on the Lisbon, and then on the Mediterranean station, where, in July, 1830, two years after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the Wasp 18, Capt. Brunswick Popham. Towards the close of 1831, after he had served for a few months in the Channel and North Sea in the Imogene, Capt. Price Blackwood, he sailed for the East Indies in the Melville 74, flag-ship of Sir John Gore. On his return in 1832 with the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the Southampton 52, Capt. John Milligan Laws, we find him employed off Antwerp during the period of General Gerard’s attack on the citadel of that place. He next, in Jan. 1833 (in March of which year he passed his examination), joined the Castor 36, Capt. Lord John Hay, with whom he served off Lisbon and on the north coast of Spain until Jan. 1836. On leaving the latter vessel Mr. Maitland was placed under the orders of Capt. Peter John Douglas in the Melville 74, bearing the flag of Sir Peter Halkett in North America and the West Indies; and on again proceeding to the East Indies in the Wellesley 72, flag-ship of his relative Sir F. L. Maitland, he was by him nominated Lieutenant, in June, 1838, of the Favorite 18, Capt. Walter Croker – an act which the Admiralty sanctioned 15 Feb. 1839. Rejoining the Wellesley in the course of the same year in the capacity of Additional-Lieutenant, he served in her, under the broad pendant of Sir Gordon Bremer, at the capture of Chusan in July, 1840; after which, on becoming attached to the Samarang 28, Capt. Jas. Scott, he assisted in reducing the forts of the Boca Tigris, and in demolishing the works on the Canton river. He was also present, and gained the public acknowledgments of his Captain for the gallantry and zeal he displayed, at the forcing, by the Nemesis steamer and the boats of the Samarang, of the inner passage from Macao to Whampoa; during their advance on which latter place the British, between 3 a.m. on 13 and 4 p.m. on 15 March, 1841, destroyed five forts, one battery, two military stations, and nine war-junks, in which collectively were 115 guns and 8 ginjalls.[1] On his return to England in the following summer he took up a Commander’s commission dated 15 Feb. 1841. He has been employed, since 3 July, 1844, in the Coast Guard service.
He married, 23 Nov. 1841, Henrietta Louisa, widow of the late W. Northage, Esq., jun., and second daughter of the late Sir John H. Newbolt, Chief Justice of Madras. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1507, 1509.