Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple

Edward Francis Maitland, Lord Barcaple FRSE LLD (1803–1870) was a Scottish advocate and judge and Senator of the College of Justice.

He was born at 36 George Square in Edinburgh[1] on 16 April 1808, the son of Adam Maitland of Dundrennan.

[2] The brother of Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan, he became an advocate in 1831, and served in government as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1855–1858 and from 1859–1862.

In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer was James Thomson Gibson-Craig.

[2] He served as Sheriff of Argyllshire from 9 July 1851, until becoming solicitor-general for Scotland under Lord Palmerston from 14 February 1855 to 17 March 1858, and from 27 June 1859 to 10 November 1862.