Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale

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Patrick Francis Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale (b. March 17, 1911)^[1], is a British Conservative politician.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Politics 3 Other 4 Marriage 5 Notes 6 References

[edit] Early life

Educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Brasenose College, Oxford (B.A. Hons., 1933), he then entered a career in journalism. During the Second World War he served as Special Correspondent (Balkans & Danubian) for The Times 1939 - 1941, and in the latter year was also Special Correspondent for the Washington News Chronicle. He was then War Correspondent for the News Chronicle in the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand 1941 - 1943, and then joined the British Foreign Office, 1943 - 1945.^[2]

[edit] Politics

In 1951, he was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for Lanark, after its previous MP (and future Prime Minister) Alec Douglas-Home was disqualified after succeeding to his father's peerage. Maitland held the seat until 1959 when it was taken by Labour candidate Judith Hart. From 1957 - 1959 he was Founder-Chairman of the Expanding Commonwealth Group at the House of Commons, where he was also Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Energy, and Transport. ^[3]

Maitland succeeded his brother, The Reverend Alfred Maitland, 16th Earl of Lauderdale (d.s.p.) in the peerages in 1968. He was also a parliamentary member (House of Lords) of the Conservative Monday Club^[4]; and was Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on EEC Scrutiny 1974 - 1979, Vice-Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers Committee 1980 - 1987, Vice-Chairman and co-founder of the parliamentary group for Energy Studies 1980 - 1999, appointed Chairman of the 'Church in Danger' All-Party Parliamentary Group 1988,^[5] and is the second oldest living person to have served as a British Member of Parliament, exceeded only by Bert Hazell.

[edit] Other

Other roles include being a Director of Elf Aquitaine (UK) Holdings Ltd.,^[6], Consultant in Economic Geography, an Industrial Consultant, a former editor of The Fleet Street Letter Service - an agency for political and diplomatic news, and editor of The Whitehall Letter. He is a member of the College of Guardians of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk 1955 - 1982, and was President of The Church Union 1956 - 1961. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Travellers Club in London^[7] and the New Club in Edinburgh^[8]. He is also the Hereditary Bearer of the National Flag of Scotland,^[9] Chief of the Clan Maitland,^[10].

His publications,^[11] include:

• European Dateline (1945)
• Task for Giants (1957)

[edit] Marriage

He married, July 20, 1936, Stanka (d. 2003), elder daughter of Professor Milivoje Losanitch, from Belgrade, Yugoslavia ^[12] and has issue:

• Ian, Viscount Maitland, Master of Lauderdale, (b. November 4, 1937) Lieutenant, Royal Navy Reserve, member of the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland, Royal Company of Archers, and a banker.^[13]
• Sydney Milivoje Patrick, (b. June 23, 1951), a priest of the Scottish Episcopal Church.^[14]
• Olga Helen, (b. May 23, 1944), who also became a prominent politician and Conservative Party (UK) Member of Parliament, 1992 - 1997.^[15]
• Caroline Charlotte Militsa, (b. November 18, 1946).

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Townend, Peter, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 105th edition, London, 1970, p.1546.
• Dewar, Peter Beauclerk, Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain - The Kingdom in Scotland, 19th edition, vol.1, 2001, p.972, ISBN 0-9711966-0-5
• Black, A & C., publishers, Who's Who 2004, 156th edition, London, 2004, p.1273, ISBN 0-7136-6275-1
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lord Dunglass	Member of Parliament for Lanark 1951—1959	Succeeded by Judith Hart
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Alfred Maitland	Earl of Lauderdale 1968–present	Succeeded by (current incumbent)