page_title: James Maidment
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: James Maidment / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal Crescent 15-23, Edinburgh
context_page_description: James Maidment was a British antiquary and collector. He passed through Edinburgh University to the Scottish bar, and was chief authority on genealogical cases.
  Maidment's hobby was the collection of literary rarities. He edited and published editions of ancient literary remains including A Book of Scottish Pasquils, 1568-1715, a selection from the papers of the family of Boyd of Kilmarnock from the 16th and 17th centuries, state papers and miscellaneous correspondence of Thomas, Baron Melros, letters and state papers during the reign of King James the Sixth, chiefly from the manuscript collections of Sir James Balfour of Denmylne, constitutions, charters etc. of the nunnery of Sciennes, 1512–88, and Scottish Ballads and Songs: Historical and Traditionary.
  Maidment was also a poet and a friend of Sir Walter Scott. A collection of his poems is held at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas.
context_section_description: He was born in London about 1795; his father was a solicitor. Called to the Scottish bar in 1817, he soon took a high position as an advocate in cases involving genealogical inquiry, and was much involved in disputed peerage cases. In 1832 he lived at 103 Princes Street looking onto Edinburgh Castle. He moved soon after to 10 Forres Street on the Moray Estate in west Edinburgh. He later lived at 25 Royal Crescent on the northern edge of the Second New Town in Edinburgh.
  He died in Edinburgh, 24 October 1879, and was buried with his family in the Dean Cemetery. The grave lies in the first northern extension.
  He was an extensive collector, and the sale, in May 1880, of his library occupied fifteen days.
caption: Royal Crescent 15-23, Edinburgh
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