George Maclean (February 2, 1801 - May 22, 1847) was Governor of Cape Coast, now in Ghana, from 1830 until 1844. Born in Keith, Banffshire, Scotland, 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. He married poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon and is buried at Cape Coast Castle.
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—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)