Ebenezer Maitland

Ebenezer Fuller Maitland FRS (23 April 1780 – 1 November 1858) was an English landowner and politician.

Origins

Maitland was the only son of Ebenezer Maitland (1752-1834), a London businessman and Bank of England director, and his wife Mary, daughter of John Winter. In 1807 he changed his name to Ebenezer Fuller Maitland in accordance with the wishes of his wife's unmarried aunt, Sarah Fuller, who left him her fortune.[1]

Career

In 1804 Maitland served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Reading Volunteers. He was elected Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel in 1807, for Wallingford in 1812 and for Chippenham in 1826, holding the latter seat until 1830 when he unsuccessfully sought election at Abingdon.[2] He was appointed Sheriff of Berkshire for 1825–26 and Sheriff of Breconshire for 1831–32.[1]

Fuller Maitland was a director of the South Sea Company from 1815 until his death[1] and in 1829 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[3] As well as two large London houses, he owned country estates at Shinfield Park and Park Place in Berkshire, Stansted Mountfichet in Essex, Garth near Builth Wells in Breconshire, and High Barcaple in Kirkcudbrightshire.[1]

He died at Brighton in Sussex.[1]

Family

In 1800, aged 20, Maitland married Bethia (1781–1865), the only child and heiress of Joshua Ellis and his wife Esther, the only child to marry of the banker William Fuller, said to be one of the richest men in England. They had twelve children, of whom four sons and four daughters married. His eldest surviving son and heir was the art collector William Fuller Maitland, who was father of the MP and cricketer William Fuller-Maitland.[1]

References

1. David R. Fisher & Stephen Farrell, "Fuller Maitland (formerly Maitland), Ebenezer (1780-1858), of Park Place; Shinfield Park, Berks.; Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex and 11 Bryanston Square, Mdx.", History of Parliament, retrieved 29 July 2017
2. "General Election". Bell's Weekly Messenger. 26 July 1830. p. 8. Retrieved 5 September 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "Library Archive". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 November 2012.

• "MAITLAND (afterwards FULLER MAITLAND), Ebenezer (1780-1858), of Shinfield Park, Berks. and Stansted, Essex". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 November 2012.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Viscount Lismore Charles Cockerell	Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel 1807–1812 With: George Peter Holford	Succeeded by Reginald Pole Carew John Ashley Warre
Preceded by William Hughes Richard Benyon	Member of Parliament for Wallingford 1812–1820 With: William Hughes	Succeeded by William Hughes George James Robarts
Preceded by William Madocks John Rock Grossett	Member of Parliament for Chippenham 1826–1830 With: Frederick Gye	Succeeded by Joseph Neeld Philip Pusey
Honorary titles
Preceded by Sir Charles Saxton	High Sheriff of Berkshire 1825	Succeeded by William Mount
Preceded by William Lewis Hopkins	High Sheriff of Brecknockshire 1831	Succeeded by James Pryce Gwynne Holford