About John Gorham Maitland
Lived 1818 – 1863 (aged 44–45). John Gorham Maitland was a journalist and barrister.
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. 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. He also became a Fellow of the college, after having obtained high places in the Tripos, both classical and mathematical, in 1839. He was the author of two pamphlets, Church Leases, 1849, and Property and Income Tax, 1853.
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.
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English academic and civil servant
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