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Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale

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65:, and supported James II and VII when he was deposed in a coup by his son-in-law, William, who had been invited to take the throne by a group of nobles who were disaffected by James' Catholicism and alarmed by the prospect of a Catholic succession occasioned by the birth of his heir, James Francis Edward. James' flight from his son-in-law's army was falsely depicted as an "abdication" by its supporters, and the coup became known among those supporting it as " 95:
Whilst in exile in France he translated the works of Virgil into English, published posthumously as The Works of Virgil Translated into English Verse, pub Bernard Lintott, at the Cross Keys, Fleet Street, 1709. Dryden had a copy "The late Earl of Lauderdale sent me his new translation of the Aenis:
166:"Proceedings against John Earl of Melfort, John Earl of Middletoun, Richard Earl of Lauderdale, and several others, for treason and rebellion, inciting the French King to invade their Majesties Dominions, and remaining subject to the French King". 42:, and his spouse Elizabeth Lauder. Before succeeding to the Lauderdale title, Richard Maitland was styled "of Over-Gogar", one of the Haltoun properties. Thereafter he was known as Lord Maitland until his own succession as 4th Earl. 283: 293: 298: 303: 263: 104: 193: 39: 57:, but in 1684 he was deprived of that office, on account of suspected communications with his father-in-law, Argyll, who had escaped in 1681 to 100: 210: 313: 243: 248: 128: 268: 318: 308: 258: 122: 273: 288: 278: 323: 66: 253: 140: 50: 168:
A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors
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The 4th Earl of Lauderdale married, 1 July 1678, Anne (d. 1734) daughter of
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on the side of King James, 1 July 1690, after which he retired to
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which he had finished before I ingag'd in the same Design...
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Jacobite military personnel of the Williamite War in Ireland
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Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1678
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Haltoun House
Paris
Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale
Privy Councillor
General of the Mint
Lord Justice Clerk
Holland
Treasurer-depute
The Glorious Revolution
Battle of the Boyne
Limerick
James II
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Court of Justiciary
Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll
John Lauder or Maitland, 5th Earl of Lauderdale
Lee, Sidney
"Maitland, Richard (1653-1695)" 
Dictionary of National Biography
Sir James Balfour Paul
Peerage of Scotland
Charles Maitland
Earl of Lauderdale
John Maitland
Categories
1653 births
1695 deaths
Politicians from Edinburgh
Nobility from Edinburgh
Clan Maitland

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