Ian Maitland, 15th Earl of Lauderdale

Ian Colin Maitland, 15th Earl of Lauderdale DL (30 January 1891 – 17 February 1953), styled Viscount Maitland between 1924 and 1931, was a representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords from 1931 to 1945.

Maitland was the only child of Frederick Maitland, 14th Earl of Lauderdale by his wife Gwendoline Lucy (d. 30 January 1929), daughter of Robert Vaughan Williams, a judge, of Bodlonfa, Flintshire. He succeeded to the titles upon his father's death in 1931.

Educated at Eton College, Maitland served in World War I, was a Major in the 3rd Reserve Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and in 1915-16 and 1918 was ADC to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Earl was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the King's Bodyguard for Scotland, and Deputy Lieutenant for Berwickshire.

In civilian life he was President of the Southampton Conservative Association, 1931–1935, and Hon. President of the Association of Certified and Corporate Accountants, 1931 - 1945.

Family
Lord Lauderdale married Ethel Mary Ivy (d. 1971 or 1972), eldest daughter of James Jardine Bell-Irving of Makerstoun, Roxburghshire, on 11 November 1912. They resided at Thirlestane Castle, near Lauder, Berwickshire. They had two children:


 * Lady Sylvia Gwendoline Eva Maitland (22 September 1913 - 1991), who married 3 June 1937 William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew, and left issue, two sons and two daughters.
 * Ivor Colin, Viscount Maitland, (29 August 1915 – 18 January 1943), killed in action in North Africa, aged 27. He married, in 1936 (aged 21), Helena Ruth Perrott (1912 -1 September 1999, aged 87 ), daughter of Sir Herbert Charles Perrott, 5th and 1st Bt., and left issue, three daughters. These daughters were raised to the rank, style and precedence of an earl's daughters by Royal Warrant dated 28 October 1953, and published 24 November 1953 in the London Gazette
 * Hon. Mary Helena Maitland, now Mary, Baroness Biddulph (b. 1938), who married 1958 the 4th Baron Biddulph (1931–1988) and has issue two sons, including Nicholas Maitland-Biddulph, 5th Baron Biddulph, and one daughter.
 * Hon. Anne Priscilla Maitland, now Lady Anne Eyston (b. 1940) who married John Joseph Eyston, of East Hendred (b. 1934), of a prominent Catholic recusant family, and has issue one son and two daughters.
 * Hon. Elizabeth Sylvia Maitland, now Lady Elizabeth Maitland (b. 1943 posthumously) who is not married.