Английская Википедия:Charles Maitland (British Army officer)

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General Charles Lennox Brownlow Maitland Шаблон:Postnominal (27 September 1823 – 5 January 1891) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

One of seven children of the British Army General Peregrine Maitland and his second wife Lady Sarah Lennox, he was born in September 1823.[1] He joined the British Army in April 1841, when he purchased the ranks of ensign and lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards.[2] Maitland played first-class cricket in 1842 and 1843 for the Marylebone Cricket Club, making two appearances at Lord's against Hampshire and Cambridge Town Club.[3] He scored 10 runs and took 2 wickets in these matches.[4][5] In March 1846, he purchased the ranks of lieutenant and captain in March 1846.[6] Maitland served in the Kafir Wars of 1846 and 1847.[7] In September 1848, he was made a brevet major.[8]

Maitland sat as a mourner for the Grenadier Guards at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington in November 1852.[9] The following year the Crimean War began, with Maitland serving in the war as an assistant adjutant-general to the 4th Infantry Division.[1] Promoted to captain and lieutenant colonel without purchase in September 1854,[10] he was seriously wounded at the Battle of Inkerman on 5 November 1854.[1] For his service in the war he was appointed to the Legion of Honour by France in August 1856,[11] in addition to being decorated in March 1858 by the Ottoman Empire with the Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class.[12] In February 1860, he was promoted to brevet colonel.[13] In September 1868, he was appointed major of the Royal Hospital Chelsea,[14] an appointment he held until 1874 when he was promoted to major-general.[15][16]

Maitland was made a Companion to the Order of the Bath in July 1876 and in the same year he was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London,[17] holding the position until he resigned in 1884.[15] He was promoted to lieutenant-general in October 1877.[18] By 1884 he was the colonel of the Wiltshire Regiment and was promoted to general in December of that year.[19] He retired from active service in March 1886.[20] Maitland died at his residence in the Hampshire village of Crookham on 5 January 1891.[21]

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