MAIDMENT

James (son of James Maidment, solicitor, Dowgate hill, London). b. London about 1795; called to Scottish bar 1817; much engaged in disputed peerage cases; a friend of sir Walter Scott; edited works for the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbots ford, and Hunter i an clubs, and for the Spottiswoode society 1837–73; principal editor of Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits 2 vols. 1837; edited with W. H. Logan The dramatists of the restoration 14 vols. Edinburgh 1877; edited and wrote 63 works; the sale of his library in May 1880 lasted 15 days. d. Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1879. T. G. Stevens on’s Bibliography of Maidment (1883), portrait ; Journal of jurisprudence , xxiii 601–3 (1879).