Frederic William Maitland

Frederic William Maitland ( born May 28, 1850 in London, † December 19, 1906 in Gran Canaria ) was an English jurist and historian.

Life

The son of John Gorham Maitland was educated at Eton College and Trinity College. He was in London solicitor (approval in 1876, called to the bar in Lincoln 's Inn ), specializing in equity and real estate law before it was in English law at the University of Cambridge from 1884 Reader. In 1888, he was there, Downing Professor of the Laws of England. In 1906 he died of tuberculosis in Gran Canaria.

In 1887, he was the founder of the Selden Society, for which he edited many of the first volumes.

In 1897 he gave the Ford Lectures in English history at Oxford.

He was married to Florence Henrietta Fisher and had two daughters. After his death his widow married Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin.

Works

  • The collected papers of Frederic William Maitland. Ed. by H. A. L. Fisher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911 ( 3 volumes)
  • With Frederick Pollock History of English Law befor the time of Edward I., Cambridge University Press 1895, 1898, Archives
  • Pleas of the Crown for the County of Gloucester before the Abbot of Reading and his fellows Justices Itinerant, Macmillan, 1884.
  • Justice and Police, Macmillan, 1885.
  • Domesday Book and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 1897. Online
  • Township and Borough: Being the Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in the October Term of 1897, Cambridge University Press, 1898.
  • Roman Canon Law in the Church of England, London: Methuen, 1898.
  • English Law and the Renaissance: the speech Lecture for 1901, Cambridge University Press, 1901.
  • Charters of the Borough of Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1901, Cambridge University Press, 2010
  • Life of Leslie Stephen, Duckworth & Co., 1906.
  • The Constitutional History of England, Cambridge University Press, 1908
  • The Letters of Frederic William Maitland, Selden Society, 1965.
  • The Anglican Settlement and the Scottish Reformation, in The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 2, 1903

As editor of several volumes of the Journal of the Selden Society:

  • Select Pleas for the Crown, vol 1: 1200-1225, Selden Society, Volume 1, 1887
  • Select Pleas in Manorial and other Seignorial Courts, Vol 1: Henry III and Edward I, Selden Society, Volume 2, 1888
  • W. Paley Baildon with: The Court Baron: Precedents of pleading in manorial and other local courts, Selden Society, Volume 4, 1890
  • With WJ Whittaker: The mirror of justices, Selden Society, Volume 7, 1893
  • Select passages from Bracton and Azo, Selden Society, Volume 8, 1894
  • Volumes for the time Edwards II, Volume 17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 27, 1903-1912
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