page_title: Maitland Brown
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Maitland Brown / Later life
context_page_description: Maitland Brown was an explorer, politician and pastoralist in colonial Western Australia. He is best remembered as the leader of the La Grange expedition, which searched for and recovered the bodies of three white settlers killed by Indigenous Australians, and subsequently killed a number of Indigenous people in an incident that remains controversial to this day.
context_section_description: On 7 April 1886, Brown resigned his seat in the Legislative Council for the last time.  He then accepted a re-appointment to the position of Resident Magistrate at Geraldton.  He remained in the position until his retirement from public life in 1904, nominally on grounds of ill health, but possibly due to his wife's alcoholism.  Brown's wife died in early 1905, and shortly afterwards, on 8 May, Brown himself died in Perth.  He was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery, but in 1911 his remains were re-interred with the remains of Panter, Harding and Goldwyer in East Perth Cemeteries.  In 1912, a monument to Brown was erected on the Fremantle Esplanade.
caption: The Explorers' Monument
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