Daughter of Frederick and Florence Maitland (later Lady Florence Darwin) and sister of Fredegond Maitland, later Shove; step-daughter of Sir Francis Darwin. Her father called her 'Mrs. Josiah Smith', as a nickname.
'Ermengard' was named, according to Ermengard herself, for a woman in Bracton's Note Book: a collection of cases decided in the King's Courts during the Reign of Henry III: William of Punchardon married Ermengard, widow of Thomas of Saunton.
Her death was registered in Bathavon (Somerset) district in the Deaths register for July-Sept 1968. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 25, 1968; pg. 16, says she was cremated. Subject to confirmation her ashes are interred in her mother's grave: "On a second plinth, inscription which is buried." (as quoted from Dr. Lucy Slater, October 1986.)
Her last home was "Colliers", Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire; Brookthorpe now has a small road called "Maitlands". In 1923 she was described as Lady of the Manor of Brookthorpe.
"She traveled to Montreal on the "Duchess of York" in October 1931, (Manifests of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954 , Affiliate Publication Number: M1464 , Affiliate Film Number: 576)."
"The last of these moves followed his marriage on 20 July 1886 to Florence Henrietta Fisher (1864–1920), whom he had met through Leslie Stephen. She was the daughter of Herbert Fisher and Mary Jackson, whose sister Julia was Stephen's second wife; one of her brothers was H. A. L. Fisher and a sister was to marry Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Maitlands had two daughters, the elder born soon after the publication of Bracton's Note Book and given a name from it, ERMENGARD. She was to survive by more than sixty years the father who died on her nineteenth birthday; and her memories of him were to be printed by the Selden Society of which he was the effective founder."
"Stephen died in February 1904; and modesty carried Maitland beyond his brief. Only one with the powers of Stephen himself, he explained, could catch his essence in the short account Stephen had envisaged. ‘If I am to write of him at all, I must use other words and other eyes than mine, more especially his own’ (Maitland, Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, 2). So he brought together many letters written by and about Stephen and worked them into a 500-page book. It is a fine portrait; and perhaps only one who regrets the diversion from the year-books can wonder whether Maitland's own words and eyes, which Stephen wanted, might not have yielded a more compelling miniature. The Life and Letters was finished in the spring of 1906 and Maitland awaited ‘the dreadful moment of publication’ (Letters, 1, no. 472). For the first time he feared reviews, and feared that he had not done right by Stephen. The book was published in November and he knew that it had been well received; but his wife saw lingering anxiety as he turned its pages just hours before he died (Fifoot, Life, 279).
"On 6 December Maitland left Cambridge for the Canaries, and influenza which developed on the voyage became double pneumonia. He died in a hotel in Las Palmas early in the morning of 20 December; and next day his wife and ERMENGARD, who had preceded him to get a house ready for their usual stay, saw him buried in the English cemetery there."
'Ermengard' was named, according to Ermengard herself, for a woman in Bracton's Note Book: a collection of cases decided in the King's Courts during the Reign of Henry III: William of Punchardon married Ermengard, widow of Thomas of Saunton.
Her death was registered in Bathavon (Somerset) district in the Deaths register for July-Sept 1968. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 25, 1968; pg. 16, says she was cremated. Subject to confirmation her ashes are interred in her mother's grave: "On a second plinth, inscription which is buried." (as quoted from Dr. Lucy Slater, October 1986.)
Her last home was "Colliers", Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire; Brookthorpe now has a small road called "Maitlands". In 1923 she was described as Lady of the Manor of Brookthorpe.
"She traveled to Montreal on the "Duchess of York" in October 1931, (Manifests of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954 , Affiliate Publication Number: M1464 , Affiliate Film Number: 576)."
"The last of these moves followed his marriage on 20 July 1886 to Florence Henrietta Fisher (1864–1920), whom he had met through Leslie Stephen. She was the daughter of Herbert Fisher and Mary Jackson, whose sister Julia was Stephen's second wife; one of her brothers was H. A. L. Fisher and a sister was to marry Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Maitlands had two daughters, the elder born soon after the publication of Bracton's Note Book and given a name from it, ERMENGARD. She was to survive by more than sixty years the father who died on her nineteenth birthday; and her memories of him were to be printed by the Selden Society of which he was the effective founder."
"Stephen died in February 1904; and modesty carried Maitland beyond his brief. Only one with the powers of Stephen himself, he explained, could catch his essence in the short account Stephen had envisaged. ‘If I am to write of him at all, I must use other words and other eyes than mine, more especially his own’ (Maitland, Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, 2). So he brought together many letters written by and about Stephen and worked them into a 500-page book. It is a fine portrait; and perhaps only one who regrets the diversion from the year-books can wonder whether Maitland's own words and eyes, which Stephen wanted, might not have yielded a more compelling miniature. The Life and Letters was finished in the spring of 1906 and Maitland awaited ‘the dreadful moment of publication’ (Letters, 1, no. 472). For the first time he feared reviews, and feared that he had not done right by Stephen. The book was published in November and he knew that it had been well received; but his wife saw lingering anxiety as he turned its pages just hours before he died (Fifoot, Life, 279).
"On 6 December Maitland left Cambridge for the Canaries, and influenza which developed on the voyage became double pneumonia. He died in a hotel in Las Palmas early in the morning of 20 December; and next day his wife and ERMENGARD, who had preceded him to get a house ready for their usual stay, saw him buried in the English cemetery there."
Daughter of Frederick and Florence Maitland (later Lady Florence Darwin) and sister of Fredegond Maitland, later Shove; step-daughter of Sir Francis Darwin. Her father called her 'Mrs. Josiah Smith', as a nickname.
'Ermengard' was named, according to Ermengard herself, for a woman in Bracton's Note Book: a collection of cases decided in the King's Courts during the Reign of Henry III: William of Punchardon married Ermengard, widow of Thomas of Saunton.
Her death was registered in Bathavon (Somerset) district in the Deaths register for July-Sept 1968. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 25, 1968; pg. 16, says she was cremated. Subject to confirmation her ashes are interred in her mother's grave: "On a second plinth, inscription which is buried." (as quoted from Dr. Lucy Slater, October 1986.)
Her last home was "Colliers", Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire; Brookthorpe now has a small road called "Maitlands". In 1923 she was described as Lady of the Manor of Brookthorpe.
"She traveled to Montreal on the "Duchess of York" in October 1931, (Manifests of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954 , Affiliate Publication Number: M1464 , Affiliate Film Number: 576)."
"The last of these moves followed his marriage on 20 July 1886 to Florence Henrietta Fisher (1864–1920), whom he had met through Leslie Stephen. She was the daughter of Herbert Fisher and Mary Jackson, whose sister Julia was Stephen's second wife; one of her brothers was H. A. L. Fisher and a sister was to marry Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Maitlands had two daughters, the elder born soon after the publication of Bracton's Note Book and given a name from it, ERMENGARD. She was to survive by more than sixty years the father who died on her nineteenth birthday; and her memories of him were to be printed by the Selden Society of which he was the effective founder."
"Stephen died in February 1904; and modesty carried Maitland beyond his brief. Only one with the powers of Stephen himself, he explained, could catch his essence in the short account Stephen had envisaged. ‘If I am to write of him at all, I must use other words and other eyes than mine, more especially his own’ (Maitland, Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, 2). So he brought together many letters written by and about Stephen and worked them into a 500-page book. It is a fine portrait; and perhaps only one who regrets the diversion from the year-books can wonder whether Maitland's own words and eyes, which Stephen wanted, might not have yielded a more compelling miniature. The Life and Letters was finished in the spring of 1906 and Maitland awaited ‘the dreadful moment of publication’ (Letters, 1, no. 472). For the first time he feared reviews, and feared that he had not done right by Stephen. The book was published in November and he knew that it had been well received; but his wife saw lingering anxiety as he turned its pages just hours before he died (Fifoot, Life, 279).
"On 6 December Maitland left Cambridge for the Canaries, and influenza which developed on the voyage became double pneumonia. He died in a hotel in Las Palmas early in the morning of 20 December; and next day his wife and ERMENGARD, who had preceded him to get a house ready for their usual stay, saw him buried in the English cemetery there."
'Ermengard' was named, according to Ermengard herself, for a woman in Bracton's Note Book: a collection of cases decided in the King's Courts during the Reign of Henry III: William of Punchardon married Ermengard, widow of Thomas of Saunton.
Her death was registered in Bathavon (Somerset) district in the Deaths register for July-Sept 1968. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 25, 1968; pg. 16, says she was cremated. Subject to confirmation her ashes are interred in her mother's grave: "On a second plinth, inscription which is buried." (as quoted from Dr. Lucy Slater, October 1986.)
Her last home was "Colliers", Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire; Brookthorpe now has a small road called "Maitlands". In 1923 she was described as Lady of the Manor of Brookthorpe.
"She traveled to Montreal on the "Duchess of York" in October 1931, (Manifests of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954 , Affiliate Publication Number: M1464 , Affiliate Film Number: 576)."
"The last of these moves followed his marriage on 20 July 1886 to Florence Henrietta Fisher (1864–1920), whom he had met through Leslie Stephen. She was the daughter of Herbert Fisher and Mary Jackson, whose sister Julia was Stephen's second wife; one of her brothers was H. A. L. Fisher and a sister was to marry Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Maitlands had two daughters, the elder born soon after the publication of Bracton's Note Book and given a name from it, ERMENGARD. She was to survive by more than sixty years the father who died on her nineteenth birthday; and her memories of him were to be printed by the Selden Society of which he was the effective founder."
"Stephen died in February 1904; and modesty carried Maitland beyond his brief. Only one with the powers of Stephen himself, he explained, could catch his essence in the short account Stephen had envisaged. ‘If I am to write of him at all, I must use other words and other eyes than mine, more especially his own’ (Maitland, Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, 2). So he brought together many letters written by and about Stephen and worked them into a 500-page book. It is a fine portrait; and perhaps only one who regrets the diversion from the year-books can wonder whether Maitland's own words and eyes, which Stephen wanted, might not have yielded a more compelling miniature. The Life and Letters was finished in the spring of 1906 and Maitland awaited ‘the dreadful moment of publication’ (Letters, 1, no. 472). For the first time he feared reviews, and feared that he had not done right by Stephen. The book was published in November and he knew that it had been well received; but his wife saw lingering anxiety as he turned its pages just hours before he died (Fifoot, Life, 279).
"On 6 December Maitland left Cambridge for the Canaries, and influenza which developed on the voyage became double pneumonia. He died in a hotel in Las Palmas early in the morning of 20 December; and next day his wife and ERMENGARD, who had preceded him to get a house ready for their usual stay, saw him buried in the English cemetery there."
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