Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Maitland, John Gorham
MAITLAND, JOHN GORHAM (1818–1863), civil servant, born in 1818, was the son of Samuel Roffey Maitland [q. v.] He became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, after having obtained the third place in the classical and the seventh in the mathematical tripos of 1839. He was called to the bar, but found little practice. He was the author of two pamphlets, ‘Church Leases,’ 1849, and ‘Property and Income Tax,’ 1853. He was secretary to the civil service commission in succession to his friend James Spedding [q. v.] from 1855 until his death in 1863. His wife Emma, daughter of John Frederic Daniell [q. v.], survived him with a son and two daughters.
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