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Maitland (surname)

Maitland is an English and Scottish surname. 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

Adam Maitland (1885–1949), British Conservative Party politician
Agnes Catherine Maitland (1850-1906), principal of Somerville College, Oxford
Brianna Maitland (born 1986), American teenager who disappeared in 2004
Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale (c. 1620–1691), Scottish judge
Clover Maitland (b. 1972), Australian women's field hockey player
Dalrymple Maitland (1848-1919), Liverpool-born businessman who became Speaker of the House of Keys
Edward Maitland (writer) (1824–1897), English humanitarian writer
Edward Maitland (RAF officer) (1880–1921), British military aviator
Emma Maitland (1844–1923), British suffragist
Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), English jurist and historian
Frederick Lewis Maitland (Royal Navy officer, born 1730) (1730–1786), captain in the Royal Navy
Frederick Lewis Maitland (1777–1839), son of the above, Rear admiral in the Royal Navy
Frederick Maitland (1763–1848), English General, Napoleonic era
Henry Maitland Wilson (1881–1964), British Army general
James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759–1839), economist and representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords
Sir James Heriot-Maitland (1837–1902), British Army general
James Maitland Stewart (1908–1997), American actor, widely known as James Stewart or Jimmy Stewart
John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane (1537–1595), Lord Chancellor of Scotland
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale (1616–1682), Scottish politician, and leader within the Cabal Ministry
John Maitland (British Army officer) (1732–1779), British military officer
John Maitland (Royal Navy officer) (1771–1836), Royal Navy admiral
John Maitland (Conservative politician) (1903–1977), British politician in the Conservative party (Tory)
John Alexander Fuller Maitland (1856–1936), British music critic and scholar
Kier Maitland (born 1988), Canadian freestyle swimmer
Lady Olga Maitland (born 1944), British politician
Lillias Maitland (1862–1932), one of the first women graduates from a Scottish University, University of Edinburgh 1893
Mary Maitland (1550-1596), Scottish writer
Mary Ann Maitland (1839-1919), Canadian writer
Peregrine Maitland (1777–1854), British soldier and colonial administrator
Richard Maitland (1496–1586), Scottish poet, Senator of the College of Justice, Ordinary Lord of Session
Royal Maitland (1898–1946), Canadian politician in British Columbia
Samuel Roffey Maitland (1792–1866), English priest and religious historian
Sara Maitland (born 1950), British writer
Sean Maitland (born 1988), New Zealand born Scottish rugby union player
Thomas Maitland (British Army officer) (1759–1824), British colonial governor and general
Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan (1792–1851), Scottish judge
Thomas Maitland, 11th Earl of Lauderdale (1803–1878), British naval officer
William Maitland of Lethington (1525–1573), 'Secretary Lethington' to Mary, Queen of Scots
William Maitland (c.1693–1757), historian and topographer, History of London from Its Foundation to the Present Time