Maurice Bocland (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General Maurice Bocland (c. 1695 – 15 August 1765) of Knighton Gorges in the parish of Newchurch, Isle of Wight, was a British soldier and Member of Parliament.

Bocland succeeded to the family estate in Wiltshire on the death of his brother Philip, but sold it in 1726 and moved to Hampshire.

In his military career, Bocland transferred from the cavalry to the infantry in 1738, when he was promoted to captain in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, ranking as a lieutenant-colonel.

He served in the War of the Austrian Succession in Flanders from 1743 to 1746; he was wounded at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745[1] and promoted to major in the same year.

Knighton Gorges passed to his grandson Maurice George Bisset (1757–1821) the son of his daughter Jane Bockland by her husband Rev.