First published in 1939, this volume describes many of the more
colourful episodes in the career of Sir Thomas Maitland, while, in
its account of his role as governor, it makes a valuable
contribution to the study of early colonial history. Maitland was
one of the most important figures in the formative period of the
colonial administrative service during and immediately after the
Napoleonic Wars. After a distinguished military career, he had two
long periods of office in Ceylon, from 1805 to 1811, and from 1813
until his death in 1824 he acted as Governor of Malta and then of
the Ionian Islands, where he made a lasting reputation for his
vigour and honesty, as well as for his autocratic methods of
administration which brought him to be popularly regarded as a
tyrant.
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