John Gorham Maitland (1818–1863) was an English academic and civil servant; he was a Cambridge Apostle.
[3] He also became a Fellow of the college, after having obtained high places in the Tripos, both classical and mathematical, in 1839.
[1] Maitland was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, but found little practice.
[2] He was secretary to the Civil Service Commission in succession to his Cambridge friend James Spedding from 1855 until his death in 1863.
[1] Maitland's wife Emma, second daughter of John Frederic Daniell, died in 1851.