Edmund Maine

Lieutenant-General Edmund Maine was an English soldier and politician.

Life

He was a lieutenant-colonel of a cavalry unit in Scotland in 1679. He then served as lieutenant-colonel under John Churchill with the Troops of Horse Guards fighting at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He later served as commander-in-chief of the third troop of Life Guards in Ireland.
From 1702 to 1711 he served as governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

MP

He was a Member of Parliament for Morpeth from 1705 to 1708. While MP, he paid for the production of 6 bells as a gift for Morpeth Clock Tower in 1706.
He died aged 78.