Gerald Maitland-Carew

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Gerald Edward Ian Maitland-Carew (born December 28, 1941) is Lord Lieutenant of Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale in Scotland (from March 2007), prior to which he was Depute-Lieutenant, from 1989.

He is the second son of William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew by his spouse Sylvia Gwendoline, daughter of Ian Maitland, 15th Earl of Lauderdale. As the Maitland's male entail had been broken, he inherited Thirlestane Castle through his mother, in 1971, when he also assumed the new surname of Maitland-Carew by Deed Poll. He is now trustee of both the Thirlestane Castle and Mellerstain House Charitable Trusts.

Educated at Harrow School, he served in the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, reaching the rank of Captain. He is today a member of the Territorial Army Committee, and is a Brigadier of the Royal Company of Archers.

Maitland-Carew was chairman of the Lauderdale and Gala Water 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 in 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, and since 1989 has been a member of the Jockey Club.

He is married with 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.