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Maitland, John Gorham (1818-1863), civil servant
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Letter from Alexander James William Morrison to Richard Monckton Milnes
HOUG/E/M/13/61 · Item · 12 Jul. 1861
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Broad Town Parsonage, Wootton Bassett, Wilts. - Hopes Milnes has asked the Duke of Somerset about a second chance for Francis [A. R. Morrison]; encloses Civil Service Commission report on his examination. Did not write to the Admiralty about the Purser's clerkship for his second son Henry as he had been led to believe there was no hope of it; did not know Milnes was working for him too. Enclosure: printed circular with MS annotations, 7 Mar. 1861. John Gorham Maitland (on behalf of Civil Service Commissioners) to F. A. R. Morrison: Morrison achieved 15th place in examination for 12 Admiralty clerkships. Contains statement of marks.
Drawing of John Wordsworth at a lectern with three students at a desk in front of him
Drawing of John Wordsworth at a lectern with three students at a desk in front of him
Add. MS a/671 · Item · [1835-1836?]
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Pen-and-ink sketch, with caption at top, "John Wordsworth, Greek lecturer on Thorpes' [Thomas Thorp's] side, Trinity College -- HSB pinxit". HSB is possibly Henry Stapylton Bree, who died 14 May 1836 at Trinity. Three figures in front of Wordsworth are drawn from the back and identified by surname: Howes, Maurice, Maitland [Thomas Chubb Howes, possibly Mowbray Morris and John Gorham Maitland]. With three more lines of names below: Bree, Bowes, Byles, Macgregor, Ritchie, Sugden, Busk, ? , Neat, Waldegrave, Joy, Adcock, and Grant. These students were all admitted in 1834 and 1835 and are possibly Bree himself, Edmund Elford Bowes, James Byles, Walter Grant James Macgrigor, William Ritchie, Frank Sugden, Hans Busk, Richard Henry Neate, William Frederick Waldegrave, William Joy, Halford Henry Adcock, and Alexander Grant.

 Bree, Henry Stapylton (1817-1836), student