John Whitaker Maitland

He was the third son of William Whitaker Maitland, landowner and High Sheriff of Essex.

[1] He was educated at Harrow School, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Loughton Hall had been destroyed by fire in 1836, and after Maitland received £30,000 from the City of London for enclosing parts of Epping Forest which he owned, he rebuilt in 1878.

[2] It was designed by William Eden Nesfield in a mock Jacobean style.

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