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John Maule - Baron Maule of Inverkeilor

Biography


Birth: 1706
Death: 1781

Son of Henry Maule (1659-1734) of Kelly, and Anne Lindsay Crawfurd (d. 1729). Sometime MP for Aberdeen. Appointed Baron of the Exchequer for Scotland in May, 1748. Appointed Trustee for encouraging fisheries and manufactures in Scotland in July, 1749. He died unmarried in 1781.

Baron Maule's Close in Edinburgh is named after him.

Also known as

  • Baron Maule of Inverkeilor
  • Life with James Boswell

    Boswell, in journal notes published in Boswell on the Grand Tour I, 1763-1764, writes about himself "[being] a kind of Baron Maule" (July 10, 1764) and an intention of his to "live like Baron Maule". (July 28, 1764).

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  • Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1763-1764
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