The arms are those of James, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, born in 1759. He was M.P. for Newport,. Cornwall, 1780-1784 and for Malmesbury 1784-1789 and succeeded his father to the Earldom in 1789. He married in 1782 Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Anthony Todd, who brought with her a dowry of 50,000 and the promise of 10,000 on the birth of each child. She was described as "a nice little painted doll, a cipher as to intellect ... amiable and obedient." (Memoirs of a Highland Lady)
Interestingly the Earl was an ardent Jacobin at the time of the French Revolution and called himself "Citizen Maitland." About 1820 however he appears to have undergone a radical change in his political leanings, so much so that at the time of the Reform Bill he was "considered as the main spring and mover of the High Tory party among the Scotch peerage." He died aged 80 in 1839 and an obituray of him observed: "This nobleman was throughout most of his life an impetuous advocate of popular opinions. He was the friend of Brissot, the dupe of Bonaparte and finally died the opponent of Lord Grey's Reform Government." (5IWraxall's Memoirs, vol. II, p. 78)