Peregrine Maitland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peregrine Maitland

British soldier and colonial administrator

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1777

Place of Birth: Longparish, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 30-May-1854

Profession: military personnel, politician, cricketer

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

General Sir Peregrine Maitland, GCB (6 July 1777 – 30 May 1854) was a British soldier and colonial administrator.
He also was a first-class cricketer from 1798 to 1808 and an early advocate for the establishment of what would become the Canadian Indian residential school system. Born at Longparish House in Longparish, Hampshire, the eldest of five sons of Thomas Maitland of Lyndhurst, Hampshire, (d.
1798) by his spouse Jane, daughter of Edward Mathew, General of the Coldstream Guards by his wife Lady Jane (d.
21 August 1793), daughter of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.
Thomas Maitland possessed plantations in the parish of St.
Thomas Middle Island on the island of St.
Christopher in the West Indies.