Lauderdale, John Maitland, duke of

Lauderdale, John Maitland, duke of

▪ Scottish politician
born May 24, 1616, Lethington [now Lennoxlove], East Lothian, Scotland
died August 20/24, 1682, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

      one of the chief ministers of King Charles II of England (reigned 1660–85); he earned notoriety for his repressive rule in Scotland during Charles II's reign.

      The son of a Scottish lord, Maitland signed the Solemn League and Covenant (1638), pledging to protect Scottish Presbyterianism against encroachments by England's King Charles I. During the first phase (1642–47) of the English Civil War between Charles I and Parliament, he helped ally Scotland with the Parliamentarians. Nevertheless, after Charles I was taken captive by Parliament in 1647, Maitland secured from the king a secret agreement, known as the Engagement, by which Charles promised to impose Presbyterianism on England in exchange for aid against the rebels. Maitland helped the Scottish Engagers mount their ill-fated invasion of England in 1648, and in 1651 he was captured while fighting with Charles II (the late Charles I's son and successor) against Oliver Cromwell's forces at the Battle of Worcester.

      Imprisoned in England, Maitland was released upon the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. Over the course of the next few years he became Charles's principal administrator in Scotland and a member of the king's ministry known as the Cabal. He was not privy to the secret Treaty of Dover (1670), in which Charles promised to convert to Catholicism in return for French funds.

      Although Maitland was created duke of Lauderdale in the Scottish peerage in 1672, he was widely hated for the ruthlessness with which he suppressed Covenanters who resisted the restoration of episcopacy in Scotland. Fears were sparked in the English Parliament that his policies would lay the foundation for arbitrary government enforced by a standing army. Ill health caused him to resign in 1680.

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