Ebenezer Maitland

London West India merchant, partner in Maitland Bond and Ede (q.v., under Bond & Pearse), mortgagee of Amity Hall in Jamaica, and father of Ebenezer Fuller Maitland (1780-1858) MP for Lostwithiel (1807-1812), Wallingford (1812-1820) and Chippenham (1826-1830). Son of Robert Maitland (1713-1789) and brother of Robert Maitland (?1743-1810), who were the early partners with him in 1779 when the firm was known as Robert, Robert and Ebenezer Maitland (his brother Robert showed the Coleman Street address of the family merchant firm when he made his will).

1. The ODNB entry for John Alexander Maitland Fuller, 'music critic', says of him: 'His grandfather was Ebenezer Fuller Maitland, a prominent member of the evangelical and anti-slave-trade philanthropists known as the Clapham Sect.' It does not mention his great-grandfather. According to his History of Parliament entry, Ebenezer Fuller Maitland 'whose father was a prominent merchant and a director of the Bank of England, was said to have inherited £500,000 through his marriage to the grand-daughter of William Fuller, a London banker.' Ebenezer Maitland left his son Ebenezer Fuller Maitland 500 guineas, on the basis that the latter was 'by the kind providence of God abundantly provided for.'

History of Parliament online, David R. Fisher, Stephen Farrell 'Fuller Maitland (formerly Maitland), Ebenezer (1780-1858) of Park Place; Shinfield Park, Berks; Stansted Mountfichet, Essex; and 11 Bryanston Square', http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/maitland-%28afterwards-fuller-maitland-%29-ebenezer-1780-1858 [accessed 30/04/2018].

1. Dibble, Jeremy. "Maitland, John Alexander Fuller (1856–1936), music critic." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 1 May. 2018. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34838; PROB 11/1837/275.