John Gorham Maitland Explained

John Gorham Maitland (1818–1863) was an English academic and civil servant; he was a Cambridge Apostle.

Life

He was the son of Samuel Roffey Maitland.^[1] He was born at Taunton, and had a private education.

Maitland was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1835. There he became one of the Cambridge Apostles.^[2] He also became a Fellow of the college, after having obtained high places in the Tripos, both classical and mathematical, in 1839.^[1]

Maitland was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, but found little practice. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847. He was secretary to the Civil Service Commission in succession to his Cambridge friend James Spedding from 1855 until his death in 1863.^[1]

Works

Maitland wrote for a period in the Morning Chronicle.^[3] He was the author of two pamphlets, Church Leases, 1849, and Property and Income Tax, 1853.^[1]

Family

Maitland's wife Emma, second daughter of John Frederic Daniell, died in 1851. He was survived by a son, Frederic William Maitland, and two daughters.^[2]

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Attribution

Notes and References

1. Maitland, John Gorham. 35.
2. 17829. Maitland, John Gorham. M. C.. Curthoys.
3. Mrs. Reynell, Frederic William Maitland, The Cambridge Law Journal Vol. 11, No. 1 (1951), pp. 67-73, at p. 68. Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Editorial Committee of the Cambridge Law Journal. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4503993 (Mrs. Reynell was one of Maitland's 2 daughters)