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He was the son of John Gorham Maitland, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, being bracketed at the head of the moral sciences tripos of 1872, and winning a Whewell scholarship for international law.
He was called to the bar ( Lincoln's Inn) in 1876, and became a competent equity lawyer and conveyancer, but finally devoted himself to comparative jurisprudence and especially the history of English law. In 1884 he was appointed reader in English law at Cambridge, and in 1888 became Downing professor of the laws of England. Though he suffered poor health, his intellectual grasp and wide knowledge and research gradually made him famous as a jurist and historian.
He edited numerous volumes for the Selden Society , including Select Pleas for the Crown, 1200-1225, Select Pleas in Manorial Courts and The Court Baron; and among his principal works were:
He also made important contributions to the Cambridge Modern History, the English Historical Review, the Law Quarterly Review, Harvard Law Review and other publications.
His written style was lively, and as a historian he used original sources; he was no pedant. His death at Gran CanariaGran Canaria is one of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean 210 km from the northwest coast of Africa and belonging to Spain. The island is of volcanic origin. The island was populated by the Guanches from 3000 BC, who called i deprived English law and letters of an outstanding representative.
See P VinogradoffPaul Vinogradoff ( November 30 1854 December 19 1925), Anglo-Russian jurist, was born at Kostroma in Russia. He became professor of history in the university of Moscow, but his zeal for the spread of education brought him into conflict with the authoritie's article on Maitland in the English Historical Review (1907); Sir F Pollock's in the Quarterly Review (1907); GT Lapsley's in The Green Bag (Boston, Mass., 1907); AL Smith, F. W. Maitland (1908); HAL Fisher, F. W. Maitland (1910).