Maitland, Frederic William (1850–1906)

English jurist and legal historian. He was Downing professor of English law at Cambridge from 1888 until his death. His reputation chiefly rests on A History of English Law before the time of Edward I, written in collaboration with Sir Frederick Pollock (1895).

He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1876. He founded the Selden Society for the study of English law. His other works include Doomsday Book and Beyond (1897), Roman Canon Law in the Church of England (1898), Year Books of Edward II for 1307–10 (1903–05), and Constitutional History of England from Edward I to the Present Time (1908).