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James Makgill Heriot Maitland

1837–1902 · United Kingdom

Royal Engineers officer. Worked at Troodos and Limassol.

Life and work

1879
While C. T. Newton was at Limassol, Maitland, officer commanding the Royal Engineers in Cyprus, told him that ancient fortifications could be traced on the summit of Troodos; Newton went there and found the wall unlike ancient hill fortifications he had seen elsewhere, perhaps a boundary between two ancient kingdoms.
Limassol / TroodosKiely 2010, p. 248
1879
Baker, visiting Cyprus in 1879, employed a photographer of the Royal Engineers 'kindly permitted by Major Maitland, R.E.' to take a portrait of the head of the church at a monastery.
CyprusBaker 1879, p. 276
1879–1882
One letter from 'Lt. Colonel H. Hiristmaitland, RE' (read as Heriot Maitland) to the British Museum, GR Original Letters 1879-82, no. 287; the guide does not give its subject. Tatton-Brown lists him among persons involved in Cypriot affairs.
Tatton-Brown 2001, p. 170, p. 178
1882
In Egypt: Colonel Heriot Maitland commanded the Royal Engineers attached to Hamley's Second Division (Tel el-Kebir campaign) and wrote a report on the action.
EgyptShand 1895
20 December 1883
Promoted colonel: 'Lieutenant-Colonel James Makgill Heriot Maitland, C.B., Royal Engineers, to be Colonel' (Gazette of 28 Dec 1883).
The London Gazette, issue… 1883, p. 18

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