John Gorham Maitland (1818–1863) was an English academic and civil servant; he was a Cambridge Apostle.
He was the son of Samuel Roffey Maitland. [1] He was born at Taunton, and had a private education. [2]
Maitland was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1835. There he became one of the Cambridge Apostles. [3] 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. [2] He was secretary to the Civil Service Commission in succession to his Cambridge friend James Spedding from 1855 until his death in 1863. [1]
Maitland wrote for a period in the Morning Chronicle. [4] He was the author of two pamphlets, Church Leases, 1849, and Property and Income Tax, 1853. [1]
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. [3]
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Maitland, John Gorham".
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