Maitland Club

The Maitland Club was a Scottish historical and literary club. It took its name from Sir Richard Maitland, (later Lord Lethington), the Scottish poet. The club was founded in Glasgow in 1828, to edit early Scottish texts, and publish them. Since the publications were usually limited to members, the typical print run was between seventy and a hundred copies.

Presidents

• The Earl of Glasgow ( around 1835)

Notable members

• Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet
• Robert Pitcairn
• Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
• John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll
• Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch
• John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
• Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn
• Sir David Hunter-Blair, 3rd Baronet
• Sir Thomas Makdougall-Brisbane
• Patrick Fraser Tytler
• Wilson Dobie Wilson
• Beriah Botfield
• James Dennistoun
• James Dunlop
• John Gibson Lockhart

Items published

• Scalacronica, 1836, Edited by Joseph Stevenson, from the ms at Corpus Christi, Cambridge.
• Chronicon de Lanercost, 1839.

Further reading

• R.H. Carnie and M.F. Moran, Sir Walter Scott and the Maitland Club, Studies in Scottish Literature, vol. XII, no. 1, July 1974.
• Catalogue of the works printed for the Maitland club, 1836