Frederic William Maitland
Frederic William Maitland (born May 28, 1850 in London , † December 19, 1906 in Gran Canaria ) was an English lawyer and historian .
Life
The son of John Gorham Maitland was at Eton College and at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge trained. He was a lawyer in London (admitted in 1876, called to the bar in Lincoln's Inn), specializing in equity and real estate law, before becoming a reader in English law at Cambridge University from 1884 . In 1888 he became Downing Professor of the Laws of England there . In 1906 he died of tuberculosis in Gran Canaria.
In 1887 he was the founder of the Selden Society , for which he also edited many of the first volumes.
In 1897 he gave the Ford Lectures in English History at Oxford. Also in 1897 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1900 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian and in 1902 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1902 he was also elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .
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 HAL 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.
- Bracton's Note-Book ,, CJ Clay & Sons, 1887, Cambridge University Press, 2010
- 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 Rede 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
- Equity. Also the Forms of Action at Common Law , edited by AH Chaytor and WJ Whittaker, Cambridge University Press, 1910.
- with Francis G. Montague: A Sketch of English Legal History ,, GP Putnam's Sons, 1915.
- 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 various volumes of the Selden Society yearbooks:
- Select Pleas for the Crown, Vol. 1: 1200-1225, Selden Society, Vol. 1, 1887
- Select Pleas in Manorial and other Seignorial Courts, Vol. 1: Henry III and Edward I., Selden Society, Vol. 2, 1888
- with W. Paley Baildon: 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 of Edward II, Vol. 17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 27, 1903-1912
literature
- Robert Brentano: Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906) , in: Helen Damico, Joseph B. Zavadil (eds.): Medieval Scholarship. Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, Volume 1: History (= Garland Referencey Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1350), Garland Publishing, New York 1995, ISBN 0-8240-6894-7 , pp. 131-151.
- HAL Fisher Frederic William Maitland. A Biographical Sketch , Cambridge University Press 1910, Archives
- GR Elton FW Maitland , Yale University Press 1985
- Henry Esmond Bell: Maitland: A Critical Examination and Assessment , Harvard University Press, 1965.
- James R. Cameron Frederic William Maitland and the History of English Law , University of Oklahoma Press, 1961
- CHS Fifoot Frederic William Maitland. A Life , Harvard University Press 1971
- Stroud Francis Charles Wilson FW Maitland. Lecture on a Mastermind , Oxford University Press 1980
- AL Smith Frederic William Maitland. Two lectures and a bibliography , Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, Archives
- Frederick Pollock In Memoriam: Frederic W. Maitland , The Law Quarterly Review, Volume 23, 1907
Web links
- Literature by and about Frederic William Maitland in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frederic_William_Maitland , entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 (English)
- Kurzbiographie (English)
- SUB Goettingen
Individual evidence
- ^ The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 2, page 101
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 3, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Maitland, Frederic William |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English lawyer and historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1850 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1906 |
Place of death | Gran Canaria |