Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Maitland ya tafi Indiya kuma ya zama kwamandan kwamandan Madras a 1836 yana aiki na shekaru biyu. A shekara ta 1843 an nada shi Kanal na 17 (Leicestershire) Regiment kuma a 1844 Gwamnan Cape Colony, amma an cire shi a lokacin Yakin Xhosa
Ka yi haƙuri. Har yanzu ana girmama shi sosai a Masarautar Lesotho saboda hukuncinsa game da batun kan iyaka tsakanin Orange River Afrikaners da Basotho na Sarki Moshoeshoe I, wanda, da an aiwatar da shi, da ya tabbatar da makomar tattalin arzikin masarautar. An sanya shi Knight Grand Cross na Dokar Bath a ranar 6 ga Afrilu 1852.