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

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businessman and

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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.

Career

In 1804 Maitland served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Reading Volunteers. He was elected Member of Parliament for

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in 1807, for Wallingford in 1812 and for

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in 1826, holding the latter seat until 1830 when he unsuccessfully sought election at . He was appointed

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for 1825–26 and Sheriff of Breconshire for 1831–32. Fuller Maitland was a director of the

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from 1815 until his death and in 1829 was elected a

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. As well as two large London houses, he owned country estates at Shinfield Park and Park Place in

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, Stansted Hall at

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, Garth near

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in Breconshire, and High Barcaple in

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. He died at

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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 William Fuller Maitland (1813–1876) was an English picture collector. Life Born 10 March 1813 in Mayfair, he was the second, but eldest surviving, son and heir of Ebenezer Fuller Maitland of Stansted, Essex and Shinfield Park in Berkshire, la ...

, who was father of the MP and cricketer

William Fuller-Maitland William Fuller-Maitland (6 May 1844 – 15 November 1932) was an English art collector and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1875 to 1895. A cricketer, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University between 1864 and 186 ...

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maitland, Ebenezer Fuller 1780 births 1858 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Cornwall Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1807–1812 UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1826–1830 High Sheriffs of Berkshire High Sheriffs of Brecknockshire Fellows of the Royal Society People from Clapham People from Shinfield People from Remenham

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