John Maitland (c. 1754 – 1831), was an English politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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from 1806 to 1812 and 1817 to 1818. He was the son of Robert Maitland and his wife Ursula Gorham. His younger brother was Ebenezer Maitland, and his son

Ebenezer Maitland Ebenezer Fuller Maitland FRS (23 April 1780 – 1 November 1858) was an English landowner and politician. Early life Maitland was the only son of Ebenezer Maitland, a London businessman and Bank of England director, and his wife Mary, daught ...

was a wealthy landowner. In 1801, he bought Woodford Hall, a large house in

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, with 50 acres of land adjacent to

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. In 1777, it had been leased to John Goddard, a Rotterdam merchant, whose widow died there in 1814, after which Maitland moved in, dying there in 1831. In 1825, Miss Anne Whitaker, the owner of

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and its manor died, and Maitland inherited. In 1745, the

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had sold the manor to William Whitaker of Lime Street, who was an alderman of the City of London. After his death in 1752, it passed to his widow Anne, and on her death in 1770 to their daughter Miss Anne Whitaker. Maitland's large art collection, with works by 48 artists including

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, Dürer,

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Van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealt ...

and

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, was auctioned by Christie and Manson on 30 July 1831.

William Whitaker Maitland William Whitaker Maitland (1794-1861) was a British landowner, and High Sheriff of Essex in 1836. He was the son of John Maitland, politician and landowner. He inherited Woodford Hall, a large house in Woodford, Essex, with 50 acres of land ad ...

, his son, inherited Woodford Hall and leased it to William Cox, and in 1840, to William Morris, father of

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditiona ...

the textile designer, poet, and socialist activist, then aged 6.

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