Lieutenant Colonel John Maitland MP (24 November 1733 – 22 October 1779) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1779.

[1] In May 1778 Maitland was commanding marines against vessels in the Delaware during the American Revolutionary War and became lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Battalion, 71st Regiment of Foot, Fraser's Highlanders on 14 October 1778.

[2] His death received relatively little attention in English newspapers but made major headlines in Scottish periodicals, who often felt Maitland had not been given proper credit for his role in the siege.

The Royal Gazette, a Loyalist newspaper based in New York run by James Rivington, also published a number of laudatory poems about Maitland, including one in which the spirit of Maitland praises Margaret Allen De Lancey, wife of James De Lancey, for immortalising him through poetry.

[3] For over a century, he was interred The Graham Vault in Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery, alongside his rival Nathanael Greene.