Gerald Maitland-Carew

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Gerald Maitland-Carew (born 1941) is a British soldier.

The son of the 17th Earl of Lauderdale and brother of the former Conservative politician Lady Olga Maitland, he served in the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, reaching the rank of Captain. A Brigadier of the Royal Company of Archers, he is also member of the Territorial Army Committee.

Maitland-Carew was chairman of the Lauderdale and Galawater Branch of the Royal British Legion Scotland between 1974 and 2004, of Musselburgh Racecourse between 1988 and 1998 as well as of the Gurkha Welfare Trust of Scotland between 1996 to 2003. For the International League for Protection of Horses, he was first chairman from 1999 to 2006, and is for a short time its vice-president. Since 1982, Maitland-Carew is chairman and also host of the Scottish Horse Trials Championships at Thirlestane Castle, which he has inherited from his grandmother, the 15th Countess of Lauderdale, in 1972, and since 1989 a member of the Jockey Club. He is further trustee of Thirlestane Castle and Mellerstain House Charitable Trusts. Having been a Deputy Lieutenant, he became the new Lord Lieutenant of Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale in 2007.

He is married and has two sons and a daughter.

An episode of the PBS series "The Story of English" devotes a segment to the Maitland family's linguistic heritage.