Lieutenant-General Edmund Maine (20 January 1633 â 25 April 1711) was an English soldier and politician.
He was a lieutenant-colonel of a cavalry unit in Scotland in 1679. He then served as lieutenant-colonel under John Churchill with the Troops of Horse Guards fighting at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He later served as commander-in-chief of the third troop of Life Guards in Ireland.
From 1702 to 1711 he served as governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Morpeth from 1705 to 1708. While MP, he paid for the production of 6 bells as a gift for Morpeth Clock Tower in 1706.
He died aged 78.
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