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1859. _bur._ Upper Shandon, Cork 9 Aug. _The Athenæum_, _ii_
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209, 246 (1859).
MADDEN, _Sir Frederic_ (7 son of Wm. John Madden, captain
R.M.) _b._ Portsmouth 16 Feb. 1801; assisted in preparation
of classified catalogue of printed books in British Museum
1826–8; assistant keeper of manuscripts in Br. Mus. Feb. 1828,
keeper of the manuscript department 18 July 1837 to July 1866;
one of first hundred members selected for the Athenæum club
12 June 1830; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832; K.H. July 1832; knighted at
St. James’s palace 13 March 1833; M.R.I.A.; a gentleman of the
privy chamber to Wm. IV. and to Victoria 26 Nov. 1834 to death;
a member of the Star club 1833; had a grant of arms from the
office of Ulster, king of arms, Dublin 1839; ed. for Bannatyne
club, Syr Gawayne, a collection of romance poems 1839; ed. for
British Museum, Catalogue of the manuscript music 1842; Lists of
additions to the manuscripts 1843 etc.; ed. for Roxburghe club,
The ancient romance of Havelok 1828; The romance of William
and the Werwolf 1832; The Gesta Romanorum 1838; also edited
Privy purse expenses of the princess Mary daughter of Henry the
eighth 1831; How the good wif thaught his doughter 1838; Matthæi
Parisiensis, historia Anglorum 1858; ed. with Josiah Forshall,
Wiclif’s Bible 1850, for which 65 manuscripts were consulted.
_d._ 25 St. Stephen’s sq. London 8 March 1873. _Memorials of the
Star club_ (1860), _coloured plate of his arms_; _I.L.N. lxii_
259, 415 (1873).
NOTE.--He made a collection of 27,500 printed ballads and songs in 25
vols. royal folio; his books and MSS. were sold at Sotheby’s, Aug. 1873
for £1519 14s. By his will he directed that his private letters and
MSS. were to be sealed up and given to the Bodleian library and not to
be opened until 1 Jany. 1920.
MADDEN, JOHN B. _b._ Galway, Ireland 1823; went to U.S. of
America 1846; member for Queen’s county to State assembly; chief
justice of Long Island, city of New York to death. _d._ Long
Island 1875. _Appleton’s American Cyclopædia for 1875 p._ 581
(1877).
MADDEN, JOHN MILLS. _b._ 10 July 1809; entered Madras army 1825;
ensign 51 Madras N.I. 8 Sep. 1826, lieut.-col. 29 May 1857 to
31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ 57 Elsham road,
Kensington 17 July 1877.
MADDEN, MICHAEL. _b._ 1827; a pugilist; beat John Walker near
Woking 10 Oct. 1848; fought Jack Grant for £25 a side on Woking
common 12 Dec. 1848, they fought 140 rounds in 5 hours and 45
minutes when darkness came on and battle was drawn; beaten by
Wm. Hayes at Edenbridge 17 July 1849, fight was for £100 a side
and lasted 6 hours in 185 rounds, being the longest fight on
record; beat Jack Jones of Portsmouth £50 a side, 23 rounds
in 69 minutes at Long Reach 11 Dec. 1855, Jones fell with his
head against a stake and was killed; tried for manslaughter at
Maidstone 14 March 1856 and acquitted; received £50 forfeit from
James Mace who refused to fight 20 Oct. 1857; received £15
forfeit from James Mace who bolted the morning of the fight 10
May 1858; beaten by Robert Travers £100 a side, 45 rounds in 97
minutes near Ashford 5 April 1859; landlord of the Little Bell,
78 St. John st. Smithfield, London 1859–63; kept the Rising Sun,
128 Kent st. Southwark 1863–4, the Ben Jonson, 24 Great Wild st.
1864–5, and the Phœnix tavern, 12 Stacey st. Soho 1872. _d._ of
bronchitis at the Phœnix tavern 22 Nov. 1872. _bur._ Brompton
cemet. 28 Nov. _Bell’s Life in London 23 Nov. 1872 p._ 3.
MADDEN, RICHARD ROBERT (youngest son of Edward Madden of Dublin,
silk manufacturer 1739–1830). _b._ Wormwood gate, Dublin 22
Aug. 1798; studied medicine in Paris 1820, Naples 1821 and
London 1822; a reporter on the Morning Herald 1822; travelled
in the Levant 1824–7; M.R.C.S. 1828, F.R.C.S. 1855; a surgeon
in Curzon st. Mayfair 1829–33; a magistrate in Jamaica 1833–4;
superintendent of liberated Africans, and judge arbitrator in
mixed court of commission, Havana 1836–40; a comr. of inquiry
on western coast of Africa 1841–3; special correspondent at
Lisbon of the Morning Chronicle 1843–6; colonial secretary of
Western Australia 1847–50; secretary to the Loan fund board,
Dublin Castle 1850–80; author of Travels in Turkey 2 vols.
1829; The Mussulman 3 vols. 1830; A twelve months’ residence
in the West Indies 2 vols. 1835; The United Irishmen, their
lives and times 7 vols. 1842–6, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1858; The life
and martyrdom of Savonarola 2 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The
literary life and correspondence of the Countess of Blessington
3 vols. 1855, 2 ed. 1855 and of 18 other books. _d._ 3 Vernon
terrace, Booterstown, co. Dublin 5 Feb. 1886. _bur._ Donnybrook
graveyard. _Memoirs of R. R. Madden. Ed. by his son T. M.
Madden, M.D._ (1891), _portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxvii_
272–8 (1876), _portrait_.
MADDEN, SAMUEL ALEXANDER (son of rev. Samuel Madden of Kell’s
Grange, Kilkenny). _b._ 5 July 1824; ensign 51 foot 7 July
1843, lieut.-col. 24 July 1869, placed on h.p. 20 March 1880;
lieut.-col. of brigade depot at Perth 20 March 1880, retired
5 July 1883 with hon. rank of M.G.; served during Burmese war
1852–3; in the Umbeyla expedition commanded his regiment in
the Jowaki campaign 1877 and received medal with clasp; headed
his regiment throughout Afghan war of 1878–79 and was present
at taking of Ali Masjid; C.B. 19 July 1879. _d._ Freelands,
Wherwell, Hants. 13 March 1888.
MADDEN, SAMUEL OWEN (son of Owen Madden of Mallow, co. Cork).
_b._ Mallow 1831; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1861,
B. and D.D. 1883; C. of Buttevant 1857–8; C. of St. Peter,
Cork 1858; vicar choral Cork cath. 1867; R. of St. Paul, Cork
1869–75; R. of Ch. Ch. Cork 1875–8; dean of Cork and R. of St.
Fin Barre cath. 1878 to death; preb. of St. Patrick’s cath. 1890
to death. _d._ the deanery, Cork 25 June 1891. _I.L.N. 18 July
1891 p._ 71, _portrait_.
MADDICK, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 1824; printer at 3a Savoy st.
Strand, London 1852–3, then at 11 Red Lion court, Fleet st.
1853–4; founder of Court Circular 26 April 1856; original
promoter of Sporting Life 16 March 1859, and of English mechanic
and world of science 31 March 1865. _d._ 12 Mostyn road,
Brixton, Surrey 6 July 1881. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 9 July.
MADDOCK, SIR THOMAS HERBERT (eld. son of rev. Thomas Maddock,
preb. of Chester, _d._ 12 Feb. 1825). _b._ 1792; ed. Manchester
gram. sch. and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1811;
political resident at Lucknow 1829; sec. to government of India
in the legislative, judicial and revenue departments 1838–43;
knighted by patent 25 April 1844; deputy governor of Bengal
and pres. of council of India, Sep. 1845 to Feb. 1849; M.P.
Rochester 1852–7. _d._ 10 Grosvenor mansions, Victoria street,
Westminster 15 Jany. 1870. _I.L.N. 29 Jany. 1870 p._ 130.
MADDOX, JOHN MEDEX, stage name of John Medex. _b._ 1789;
managed the Colosseum in Regent’s park, London 1840; lessee of
Princess’s theatre, Oxford st. 26 Dec. 1842 to Easter 1850;
produced Scribe’s Don Cæsar de Bazan, Oct. 1844; Charlotte
Cushman first appeared in England at Princess’s as Bianca in
Fazio 14 Feb. 1845; produced many operas by Balfe and Linley,
and Loder’s Night Dancers, Oct. 1846; wrote A curious case, a
drama Princess’s 1846; The first night, a drama Princess’s 1
Oct. 1849; Infanticide or the Bohemian mother, a melo-drama
Royal Coburg theatre; A.S.S. a farce, Lyceum 23 April 1853;
A fast train, Lyceum 25 April 1853; Chesterfield Thinskin, a
farce, Princess’s 1853; Frederick the Great; Death of Mary queen
of Scots; and Is it a lie. _d._ 7 Pelham crescent, Brompton,
London 5 March 1861. _H. B. Baker’s London Stage_, _ii_ 161–71
(1889); _Era Almanac_ (1876) 1–2.
MADDOX, WILLIS. _b._ Bath 1813; painted The Annunciation and
other sacred pictures for Wm. Beckford; exhibited 13 pictures
at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1844–53; many of his
portraits are at Bath and Bristol; painted several portraits
for the Sultan at Constantinople; published Views of Lansdowne
tower, Bath, by E. F. English, from drawings by W. Maddox 1844.
_d._ Pera near Constantinople 26 June 1853.
MADDY, JOHN (son of Joseph Maddy). _b._ Dorston, Hereford 1765
or 1766; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791, B.D.
and D.D. 1812; admitted D.D. Camb. 10 Dec. 1835; educated the
sons of many nobility and gentry at their houses in London; R.
of Somerton, Suffolk 1799 to death; R. of Hartest with Boxted
17 Feb. 1819 to death; R. of Stansfield 22 Nov. 1820 to death;
canon of Ely 6 March 1835 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the
Sovereign 24 July 1830 to death; F.S.A.; F.R.S. 12 June 1817.
_d._ Somerton, Bury St. Edmund’s 17 June 1853. _G.M. xl_ 208
(1853).
MADDY, WATKIN. _b._ Herefordshire about 1798; ed. at Hereford
gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., 2nd wrangler 1820, B.A.
1820, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1830; fellow of St. John’s coll. 18
March 1823 to March 1834; taught mathematics in London to
death; author of The elements of the theory of plane astronomy.
Cambridge 1826, new ed. 1832. _d._ Sutton Coldfield near
Birmingham 13 Aug. 1857.
MADGE, THOMAS. _b._ Plymouth 1786; ed. Crediton gram. sch.;
studied medicine under his relative Thomas Hugo at Crediton;
with rev. Timothy Kenrick at Exeter 1804 and at York coll.
1805–9; Unitarian minister Churchgate st. chapel, Bury St.
Edmunds 1810; co-pastor of Octagon chapel, Norwich 1811–25;
minister Essex st. chapel, Strand, London 1825 to May 1860;
chaplain to sheriff of London 1857–8; presented with a thousand
guineas and a silver salver May 1860; author of The salvation of
man by the free grace of God asserted 1812, 2 ed. 1815; Lectures
on high church principles 1844; Prayers for morning and evening
1866; Discourses on christian faith and life 1867 and 20 other
works. _d._ 20 Highbury terrace, London 29 Aug. 1870. _bur._
Abney park cemet. 3 Sep. _W. James’ Memoirs of T. Madge_ (1871),
_portrait_; _Diprose’s St. Clements_, _ii_ 27–8 (1868).
MADGE, TRAVERS (son of the preceding). _b._ Thorpe near Norwich
12 Oct. 1823; ed. univ. coll. London, matriculated 1840; student
Manchester coll. 1840; town missionary at Norwich 1845–7; an
itinerant preacher; teacher of the Lower Mosley street schools,
Manchester 1848–50 and 1859–61. _d._ Norwich 23 March 1866. _B.
Hereford’s Travers Madge_ (1867); _W. James’s Memoirs of Thomas
Madge_ (1871) 179–80, 266–8; _J. Evan’s Lancashire authors_
(1880) 161–6.
MADIGAN, EGGIE. One of the best vaulters in the profession;
a principal performer with Hengler’s, Boswell’s, Cooke’s and
Myers’ circuses; well known throughout the continent and India;
met with many accidents during his career. _d._ 2 King Alfred’s
place, Birmingham 7 July 1892 aged 34.
MADOX, HENRY. _b._ 1784; cornet 6 dragoons 14 March 1800,
lieut.-col. 18 Jany. 1833, placed on h.p. 1 June 1838; brevet
colonel 28 June 1838; K.H. 1832. _d._ 28 Great Pulteney st. Bath
18 March 1865.
MAEDER, CLARA (4 dau. of George Frederick Fisher, auctioneer).
_b._ London 14 July 1811; singer; first appeared as lord Flimnap
in D. Corri’s version of Garrick’s Lilliput 10 Dec. 1817 at a
London house; acted Richard III in pantomime of Gulliver at
Covent Garden 8 March 1818; first appeared in U.S. America at
Park theatre, New York, as Albina Mandeville in the comedy
of The Will 11 Sep. 1827; acted in operettas, burlesques and
extravaganzas in which she made rapid changes of costume; sang
Scotch heroic songs and ballads throughout the United States,
becoming so popular that children were named after her and young
ladies affected her lisp and manner 1830; (_m._ 6 Dec. 1834 J.
G. Maeder 1809–76); appeared in opera but was a failure 1835;
made her last appearance in New York 1851. _Appleton’s American
biography iii_ 464 (1887).
MAEDER, JAMES GASPARD. _b._ Dublin 1809; went to United States
of America 1833 where he became a distinguished musician,
composer, musical director, teacher and theatrical manager;
composer of The Swiss quadrilles. Dublin 1830; The song of
home. London 1852, 3 ed. 1878; The unwilling bride 1858;
The daughter’s dream, a romance, New York 1864; The fair
enchantress, a barcarolle 1874. _d._ Chelsea, Massachusetts 28
May 1876. _Era 25 June 1876 p._ 11.
MAGEE, DAVID. Founded a brewery in Bolton, Lancs. 1853; erected
the Crown brewery, Bolton 1866. _d._ 1875. _Barnard’s Noted
breweries_, _iv_ 221–6 (1891), _view of brewery_.
MAGEE, JAMES (son of John Magee, Irish journalist and lottery
broker, _d._ Nov. 1809). Editor and proprietor of the Dublin
Evening Post about 1815; a police magistrate at Dublin. _d._
Sep. 1866. _Trial of an action for deceit in which J. Magee was
plaintiff and N. P. O’Gorman defendant. Dublin_ (1816).
MAGEE, JOHN. _b._ Borris, co. Carlow 1812; ed. Carlow coll.
and at Maynooth; professor of theology Carlow coll. 1839–62
and V.P. 1856–62; priest of Stradbally, Queen’s county 1862 to
death. _d._ Stradbally 15 Oct. 1881. _Comerford’s Collections of
Kildare_ (1883) 228.
MAGEE, THOMAS PERCIVAL (son of Wm. Magee 1766–1831, archbishop
of Dublin). Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, LL.B.
and LL.D. 1827; preb. of Ch. Ch. Dublin 1826; preb. of St.
Patrick’s, Dublin 1826 to death; archdeacon of Kilmacduagh 13
April 1830 to death; R. of St. Thomas’s, Dublin 1843 to death;
author of An enquiry into the nature and origin of the visible
church 1822; A short explanation of the gospel of St. Luke 1823.
_d._ 16 Dec. 1854.
MAGEE, WILLIAM CONNOR (eld. son of John Magee, V. of Drogheda,
_d._ 1837). _b._ in apartment next library of Cork cathedral
18 Dec. 1821; ed. at Kilkenny coll. and at Trin. coll. Dublin,
scholar 1838; B.A 1842, B.D. 1854, D.D. 1860, Donnellan lecturer
1865; C. of St. Thomas, Dublin 1844–6; C. of St. Saviour’s,
Bath 1848–50; chaplain of Octagon chapel, Bath 1850–60; preb.
of Wells cath. May 1859 to 1861; P.C. of Quebec chapel,
London 1860–1; R. of Enniskillen 1861; dean of Cork 1 Feb.
1864 to Oct. 1868; dean of the chapel royal, Dublin 1866–9;
commenced erecting Cork cath.; bishop of Peterborough 14 Oct.
1868, consecrated at Whitehall chapel 15 Nov. 1868; D.C.L.
of Oxf. univ. 21 June 1870; made a noted speech against the
disestablishment of the Irish church; president of the Church
congress at Leicester, Oct. 1880; select preacher univ. of Oxf.
1880–2; archbishop of York 30 Jany. 1891, enthroned in York
minster 17 March; one of the greatest orators of his day; author
of Sermons at St. Saviour’s, Bath 1854; Sermons at the Octagon
chapel, Bath 1852; The gospel and the age 1884; The Atonement
1886 and 40 other works. _d._ at an hotel in Suffolk st. Pall
Mall, London 5 May 1891. _bur._ burial ground Peterborough
cathedral 9 May, a cenotaph bearing his effigy unveiled in
Peterborough cathedral 9 Oct. 1893. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops
and deans_, _ii_ 139–46 (1875); _Contemporary Review_, _Oct.
1892 pp._ 534–46; _Church portrait journal_, _vol. ii_ (1878),
_portrait as frontispiece_; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxvii_ 168–80
(1876), _portrait_; _Northamptonshire Biographical notices.
W. C. Magee_ (1892), _portrait_; _The Biograph_, _vi_ 598–606
(1881); _I.L.N. liii_ 401 (1868) _portrait_, _2 Dec. 1893 p._
695, _view of cenotaph_; _Graphic 9 May 1891 p._ 519, _portrait_.
MAGENIS, SIR ARTHUR CHARLES (5 son of col. Richard Magenis of
Warringstown, Downshire 1763–1831, M.P. Enniskillen). _b._
Ireland 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821; attached
to mission at Berlin 26 Aug. 1825; minister plenipotentiary to
Swiss confederation 27 Jany. 1851; envoy extraord. and min.
plenipo. to king of Wurtemberg 12 Feb. 1852, to king of Sweden
and Norway 20 May 1854 and to king of Portugal 11 Nov. 1859 to
June 1866 when he retired upon a pension; K.C.B. 30 Sep. 1856,
G.C.B. 6 July 1866. _d._ 13 Grosvenor place, London 14 Feb. 1867.
MAGENIS, HENRY ARTHUR (brother of preceding). _b._ July 1795;
lieut. 7 foot 4 March 1813; captain 82 foot 30 Sep. 1824, placed
on h.p. 20 Nov. 1827; major 87 foot 25 Feb. 1831, lieut.-col. 18
April 1845; lieut.-col. 27 foot 23 March 1849 to 1 April 1852;
inspecting field officer York recruiting district 1 April 1852.
_d._ York 14 Nov. 1852.
MAGHERAMORNE, SIR JAMES MACNAGHTEN MC GAREL HOGG, 1 Baron (1
son of sir James Weir Hogg, M.P. _d._ 1876). _b._ Calcutta 3
May 1823; ed. Eton; matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 12 May 1842; cornet 1
life guards 13 Oct. 1843, major and lieut.-col. 22 June 1855,
retired 30 Aug. 1859; member of metropolitan board of works 1867
and chairman 18 Nov. 1870 till abolition of board 21 March 1889;
M.P. Bath 1865–8, M.P. Truro 1871–85, M.P. Middlesex, Hornsey
division 1885–7; seconded the address to the Queen 19 Nov. 1867;
assumed by r.l. surname of Mc Garel 8 Feb. 1877; K.C.B. 16 May
1874 on opening of Chelsea embankment; succeeded his father as 2
baronet 27 May 1876; cr. baron Magheramorne of Magheramorne, co.
Antrim 5 July 1887. _d._ 17 Grosvenor gardens, London 27 June
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