SIR RICHARD MAITLAND BIOGRAPHY

SIR RICHARD MAITLAND BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.

MAITLAND, SIR RICHARD (1496-1586). —Poet, f. of M. of Lethington, Sec. of State to Mary Queen of Scots. In his later years he was blind, and occupied himself in composing a History of the House of Seaton , and by writing poems, e.g. On the New Year , On the Queene's Maryage , etc. He held various offices, chiefly legal, but appears to have kept as far as possible out of the fierce political struggles of his time, and to have been a genially satirical humorist.