Ebenezer Maitland
FRS
Member of the British Parliament
for Lostwithiel
In office
1807–1812
Member of the British Parliament
for Wallingford
In office
1812–1820
Member of the British Parliament
for Chippenham
In office
1826–1830
Personal details
Born23 April 1780
Died1 November 1858
Brighton, Sussex, UK
SpouseBethia Ellis
Children12, including William Fuller Maitland
Parent(s)Ebenezer Maitland, Mary Winter
Military service
Ranklieutenant-colonel
UnitReading Volunteers

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

Early life

Maitland was the only son of Ebenezer Maitland, 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 bequest of his wife's unmarried aunt, Sarah Fuller, who left him her fortune in 1810.[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 Hall at 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, 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
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