Sarah (Lennox) Maitland (1792 - 1873)

Born 1792 in Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of Peregrine Maitland G.C.B. — married 9 Oct 1815 in the duke of Wellington's headquarters in Paris

Descendants

Died 8 Dec 1873 at about age 81 in Hampton Court Palace, London, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Sarah, born in 1792, was the daughter of General Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond and Lennox, and Lady Charlotte Gordon. She married Sir Peregrine Maitland, a widower, in Paris in 1815. They had seven children, one of whom died in infancy.

When her husband was lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (Ontario), Sarah spent ten years in the province. The townships of Tiny, Tay and Flos are said to be named after her pet dogs.

Press cutting - Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal 28 October 1873 - The will of Sarah Maitland, widow of General Sir Peregrin Maitland, G.C.B., of Hampton Court Palace, was proved on the 9th inst., by her son, Charles Lennox Brownlow Maitland, and her son-in-law, Lord Frederick Kerr, the executors, the personalty being sworn under £7,000.

Census

1851 census of England, Wales & Scotland
Lowndes Street, Saint Georges Hanover Square, London & Middlesex, England

NB.This household had 7 domestic servants.

Sources

• The Plantagenet roll of the blood royal; being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England Pages 241-242

1. Just for interest: Profile of Edward Plantagenet, King Edward III: (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Plantagenet-70).

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_Maitland
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p7936.htm
• Hartwell Bowsfield, “MAITLAND, Sir PEREGRINE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed September 4, 2018, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/maitland_peregrine_8E.html