MAITLAND, Ebenezer Fuller. b. 1780; F.R.S. 28 May 1829; F.S.A.; resided at Park place, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire. d. Brighton 1 Nov. 1858. Cautionary hints to testators, suggested by the conduct of E. F. Maitland, with a correspondence between that gentleman and Benjamin Flower of Harlow 1813.
MAITLAND, Edward Francis, Lord Barcaple (son of Adam Maitland of Barcaple). b. Edinburgh 16 April 1803; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb., LL.D.; an advocate 1831; sheriff of Argyllshire 9 July 1851; solicitor general 14 Feb. 1855 to 17 March 1858 and 27 June 1859 to 10 Nov. 1862; a lord of the court of session with title of lord Barcaple 10 Nov. 1862 to death; curator and assessor of univ. of Edinb. 1859; rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1860. d. 3 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1870. Law mag. and law review, xxix 273–4 (1870).
MAITLAND, John (3 son of sir Alexander C. M. Gibson Maitland, 2 baronet 1755–1848). b. 17 Jany. 1803; an accountant Edinb. to death; an organizer of the National security savings’ bank; joined the Free church of Scotland 1843, an elder in St. George’s, Edinb. 1846, a founder of the Sustentation fund; accountant to the court of session 1850–65; a director of the Commercial bank and of the North British insurance co.; built offices for the Free ch. Edinb. at cost of £5000; author of National savings’ banks, suggestions for rendering such savings’ banks self supporting 1847. d. Swinton Bank near Peebles 6 Sep. 1865. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 389–96.
MAITLAND, John. b. 1807; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 16 Dec. 1824, colonel commandant 28 Jany. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Perrymead house, Bath 16 March 1881.
MAITLAND, John Gorham (son of Samuel Roffey Maitland 1792–1866). b. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1839–47; 7 wrangler and 3 in the classical tripos 1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1843; an examiner in the civil service commission, secretary to death; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; author of Church Leases 1849; Property and income tax 1853. d. 51 Rutland gate, London 27 April 1863.
MAITLAND, Julia Charlotte (dau. of Mr. Barrett). m. (1) James Thomas a judge at Rajahmundry, Madras, who d. 6 Jany. 1840; m. (2) Nov. 1842 Charles Maitland 1815–66; author of Letters from Madras during the years 1836 to 1839. By A Lady 1843, another ed. 1846; Historical charades 1847, new ed. 1858; The doll and her friends 185-, 4 ed. 1862; Cat and dog, or memoirs of the puss and the captain 1854. d. Stowe Provost near Shaftesbury 29 Jany. 1864.
MAITLAND, Sir Peregrine (son of Thomas Maitland of Shrubs Hall, New Forest, Hants.) b. Longparish house, Hants. 1777; ensign 1 foot guards 25 June 1792, captain 25 June 1803; commanded first brigade of guards at passage of the Nive 9–12 Dec. 1813 and at Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; M.G. 4 June 1814; lieut. governor of Upper Canada 3 June 1818 to 14 Aug. 1828, and of Nova Scotia 21 Aug. 1828 to 24 Jany. 1834; commander-in-chief of Madras army 11 Oct. 1836 to Dec. 1838; governor and commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 19 Dec. 1843 to 1 Oct. 1846; col. of 1 West India foot 22 Feb. 1830 to 19 July 1834; col. of 76 foot 19 July 1834 and of 17 foot 2 Jany. 1843 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846; K.C.B. 22 June 1815, G.C.B. 6 April 1852. d. 7 Eaton place West, London 30 May 1854. Hamilton’s History of the grenadier guards, vols. 2 and 3 (1874); Narrative of transactions connected with the Kaffir war (1848).
MAITLAND, Samuel Roffey (son of Alexander Maitland, merchant). b. King’s road (now Theobald’s road), Holborn, London 7 Jany. 1792; pupil of rev. Launcelot Sharpe 1807–9; admitted at St. John’s coll. Camb. 7 Oct. 1809, migrated to Trin. coll. 1810, left Cambridge 1811; entered again at St. John’s coll. 10 Oct. 1815, stayed there 3 terms; barrister I.T. 1816; C. of St. Edmund, Norwich 1821; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Gloucester 1823–7; travelled in France, Germany and Poland 1828; his pamphlet An enquiry into the grounds on which the prophetic period of Daniel and St. John has been supposed to consist of 1260 years. 1826, 2 ed. 1837, completely refuted the ‘Year-day theory’; librarian and keeper of manuscripts at Lambeth palace 1838–48; D.D. by abp. of Canterbury 1 Feb. 1848; F.R.S. 18 April 1839; lived at Gloucester 1848 to death; edited British Mag. 1839–49; contributed to earlier vols. of Notes and Queries, sometimes under signature of Rufus; author of Facts and documents illustrative of the history of the ancient Albigenses and Waldenses 1832; The dark ages: a series of essays intended to illustrate the state of religion and literature in the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries 1844; Essays on subjects connected with the reformation in England 1849 and about 40 other books. d. Gloucester 19 Jany. 1866. Proc. of royal soc. xvi 31–3 (1868).
Note.—Long before Sir Rowland Hill’s time he proposed to the prime minister that the government should carry letters for nothing. In literature he was decidedly of opinion that it would be amply worth its cost for the government to pay for the construction of an index which should give reference to every human name mentioned in every book from the invention of printing downwards.
MAITLAND, Thomas, Lord Dundrennan (eld. son of Adam Maitland). b. Dundrennan abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire 9 Oct. 1792; called to Scottish bar Dec. 1813; solicitor general 9 May 1840 to Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to Jany. 1850; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 1845–50; a lord of the court of session 6 Feb. 1850 to death, took title of lord Dundrennan; issued reprints of works by Geoffrey Mynshull, John Bellenden, Marlowe, bishop Hall and Thomas Carew; edited 3 books for the Maitland club, and The works of Robert Herrick 1823; his library was sold 10 Nov. 1851 and 8 following days. d. of paralysis at 31 Melville st. Edinburgh 10 June 1851. B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 111–2, portrait.