Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland (7 September 1777 – 30 November 1839) was an officer in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
He rose to the rank of rear admiral and held a number of commands.
The most famous event of his career occurred when Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to him aboard HMS Bellerophon, marking the final end of the Napoleonic Wars.
", p. xxiii. Meyer died in 1847. Source: Frontispiece of the 1904 edition of Frederick Lewis Maitland's 1826 book, The Surrender of Napoleon.[1] License: CC-PD-Mark PD-old-100-expired