George Maclean

George Maclean (2 February 1801 – 22 May 1847) was Governor of Gold Coast, now in Ghana, from 1830 until 1844. Maclean was a member of the Royal African Colonial Corps and was stationed in British West Africa from 1826 until 1828. In 1830 he became the Governor of Cape Coast, a position he retained until 1844.

George Maclean, born in Keith,Banffshire, Scotland, was the son of the minister, Rev James Maclean and his wife Elizabeth Tod daughter of George Tod of Elgin.

George's half-brother, James, a Captain in the Gold Coast Corps, who died in 1877, served under him.

He married poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon and is buried at Cape Coast Castle. They had no children.

Graham, Gerald S.; Metcalfe, G. E. (1962). MacLean of the Gold Coast: The Life and Times of George MacLean, 1801-1847. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 346 pages. 

Watt, Julie, Poisoned Lives, The Regency Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) and British Gold Coast Administrator George Maclean: Sussex Academic Press, Eastbourne, 2010. ISBN 

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