1. General Sir Peregrine Maitland, GCB was a British soldier and colonial administrator.
20 Facts About Peregrine Maitland
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Peregrine Maitland 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.
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Peregrine Maitland's father was a plantation owner and believed to be from the Pittrichie branch of the Aberdeenshire Maitlands.
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Peregrine Maitland served with distinction at Quatre Bras and the Battle of Waterloo.
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Peregrine Maitland was appointed lieutenant governor of Upper Canada in 1818 and supported the Family Compact that dominated the province.
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Peregrine Maitland attempted to suppress and reform pro-American tendencies in the colony and resisted demands of radicals in the government.
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Peregrine Maitland believed that while a shift from hunting to agricultural pursuits would assist with civilizing Indigenous populations, it was gaining the influence of children that would lead to success.
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Peregrine Maitland went to India and became commander in chief of the Madras Army in 1836 serving for two years.
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Peregrine Maitland is still highly respected in the Kingdom of Lesotho for his judgment on the border issue between the Orange River Afrikaners and the Basotho of King Moshoeshoe I, which, had it been implemented, would have secured the economic future of the kingdom.
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Peregrine Maitland was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 6 April 1852.
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Peregrine Maitland became the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia on 29 Nov 1828, with the added responsibility of commander-in-chief of the forces in the Atlantic region.
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Peregrine Maitland was responsible for the settlement reached for Pictou Academy.
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In October 1832 Peregrine Maitland went to England on leave, presumably because of his health, and the government was placed in charge of Thomas Nickleson Jeffery.
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Peregrine Maitland was an amateur first-class cricketer who made 27 known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1798 to 1808.
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Peregrine Maitland was mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club and he played for Surrey and Hampshire.
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Peregrine Maitland was the eldest of five sons of Thomas Maitland and Jane Mathew, daughter of Major General Edward Mathew and Jane Bertie.
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Peregrine Maitland had three sisters, and his eldest sister Jane married in 1800 a Lieutenant Colonel Warren of the Third Foot Guards.
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Peregrine Maitland was buried at St Paul's Church in Tongham in Surrey.
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Peregrine Maitland is a great-great-great uncle of composer and impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber and the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.
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Sir Peregrine Maitland is responsible for the naming of Lobo, Ontario, Mariposa, Ontario, Orillia, Ontario, Oro, Ontario, Oso, Ontario, Sombra, Ontario and Zorra, Ontario.