Maitland is an
English and
Scottish
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surname
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. It arrived in Britain after the
Norman conquest of 1066. There are two theories about its source. It is either a nickname reference to "bad temper/disposition" (
Old French, ''Maltalent'';
Anglo Norman French, ''mautalent/Mautalen'';
Latin ''malum talentum''), or it may be a locational reference to Mautalant, a place in
Pontorson,
France. The
Brittany connection is less likely than that with
Les Moitiers-d'Allonne, near
Carteret in the
Cotentin. Mautalents continue to live in and near Les Moitiers-d'Allonne, and the early medieval charters link the Maltalents of
England and
Scotland with the Morville family – originating from
Morville, near Valonges, and
Roger de Mowbray, whose family came from Aubigny, also nearby. The name gradually mutated to Mautalent and then Maitland, with the latter spelling appearing around 1250 and becoming settled in the late 14th century.
The earliest public record of the surname in Britain, after the
Battle Abbey Roll of 1066, dates to 1138 in
Northumberland when Robert Maltalent witnessed a charter of Roger de Mowbray in
Yorkshire.
The
Clan Maitland is a lowland
Scottish clan,
the chief of which holds the title
Earl of Lauderdale. The Earl's coat of arms features a lion rampant with all its joints cut off, forming a pun on the old version of the name (''Mautalent'' sounding like the word 'mutilate').
People with this surname
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Adam Maitland
Sir Adam Maitland (25 May 1885 – 5 October 1949) Charles Roger Dod, Robert Phipps Dod, ''Dod's parliamentary companion'', Publisher Dod's Parliamentary Companion, ltd., 1943.page 421"Sir Adam Maitland", ''The Times'' (London), Saturday, 8 Octo ...
(1885–1949), British Conservative Party politician
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Agnes Catherine Maitland
Agnes Catherine Maitland (1850–1906) was the principal of Somerville College, Oxford, England. She did much to gain it full college status within the University of Oxford and to expanding its library. She also wrote books about cookery.
Life ...
(1850-1906), principal of
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ir ...
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Brianna Maitland (born 1986), American teenager who disappeared in 2004
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Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale
Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale (c. 1620 – 9 June 1691), was the second son (''The Great Seal of Scotland'' gives him as third son) of John Maitland, 1st Earl of Lauderdale (died 1645).
Maitland was born at Lethington. Following the ...
(c. 1620–1691), Scottish judge
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Clover Maitland (b. 1972), Australian women's field hockey player
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Dalrymple Maitland (1848-1919), Liverpool born businessman who became
Speaker of the House of Keys
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Edward Maitland (1824–1897), English humanitarian writer
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Edward Maitland (RAF officer) (1880–1921), British military aviator
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Emma Maitland
Emma Knox Maitland (17 May 1844 – 13 June 1923) was a United Kingdom suffragist and educationist.
Life
Maitland was born in Tenby in 1844. Her father was a JP but he died when she was young. She had six children with Frederick Maitland whom s ...
(1844–1923), British suffragist
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Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), English jurist and historian
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Frederick Lewis Maitland (Royal Navy officer, born 1730) (1730–1786), captain in the Royal Navy
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Frederick Lewis Maitland (1777–1839), son of the above, Rear admiral in the Royal Navy
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Frederick Maitland (1763–1848), English General, Napoleonic era
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Henry Maitland Wilson (1881–1964), British Army general
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James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759–1839), economist and representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords
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Sir James Heriot-Maitland (1837–1902), British Army general
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James Maitland Stewart (1908–1997), American actor, widely known as James Stewart or Jimmy Stewart
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John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane (1537–1595), Lord Chancellor of Scotland
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John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale
John Maitland, 1st Duke and 2nd Earl of Lauderdale, 3rd Lord Maitland of Thirlestane KG PC (24 May 1616, Lethington, East Lothian – 24 August 1682), was a Scottish politician, and leader within the Cabal Ministry.
Background
Maitlan ...
(1616–1682), Scottish politician, and leader within the Cabal Ministry
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John Maitland (British Army officer) (1732–1779), British military officer
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John Maitland (Royal Navy officer) (1771–1836), Royal Navy admiral
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John Maitland (Conservative politician) (1903–1977), British politician in the Conservative party (Tory)
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John Alexander Fuller Maitland (1856–1936), British music critic and scholar
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Kier Maitland (born 1988), Canadian freestyle swimmer
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Lady Olga Maitland
Lady Helen Olga Hay (''née'' Maitland; born 23 May 1944), usually known as Lady Olga Maitland, is a British Conservative politician and journalist, formerly member of parliament for Sutton and Cheam.
Family and education
The daughter of Patr ...
(born 1944), British politician
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Lillias Maitland (1862–1932), one of the first women graduates from a Scottish University, University of Edinburgh 1893
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Mary Maitland (1550-1596), Scottish writer
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Mary Ann Maitland
Mary Ann Maitland (, Davidson; 26 January 1839 — 24 February 1919) was a Scottish-born Canadian author of poems, hymns, and short stories. The "Ann" character in Maitland's short story, "Charity Ann: Founded on Facts" (''Godey's Lady's Book'', ...
(1839-1919), Canadian writer
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Peregrine Maitland (1777–1854), British soldier and colonial administrator
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Richard Maitland (1496–1586), Scottish poet, Senator of the College of Justice, Ordinary Lord of Session
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Royal Maitland (1898–1946), Canadian politician in British Columbia
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Samuel Roffey Maitland (1792–1866), English priest and religious historian
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Sara Maitland (born 1950), British writer
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Sean Maitland (born 1988), New Zealand born Scottish rugby union player
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Thomas Maitland (British Army officer) (1759–1824), British colonial governor and general
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Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan (1792–1851), Scottish judge
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Thomas Maitland, 11th Earl of Lauderdale (1803–1878), British naval officer
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William Maitland of Lethington (1525–1573), 'Secretary Lethington' to Mary, Queen of Scots
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William Maitland (c.1693–1757), historian and topographer, ''History of London from Its Foundation to the Present Time''
In popular culture
*Barbara and Adam Maitland, of the 1988 film ''
Beetlejuice''
*Victor Maitland, fictional villain of the 1984 film ''
Beverly Hills Cop''
References
External links
The website of Clan Maitland in lowland Scotland
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Surnames of Lowland Scottish origin