July 1812; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1834,
M.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1837; practised at Calcutta
bar 1846; master of equity in supreme court of Calcutta 1848 to
March 1859; edited the Quarterly Review in London, Oct. 1860 to
Oct. 1867; secretary of Indian law commission Dec. 1861 to Dec.
1870; legal adviser to India office June 1874, secretary in the
judicial department Sep. 1879, retired 20 Feb. 1882; author of
A treatise on the law relating to infants 1842; The procedure
of the civil courts of the East India Company. Calcutta 1850, 5
ed. 1871; Outlines of the law of contracts as administered in
the courts of British India 1860; The practice of the judicial
committee of her majesty’s privy council 1860, 2 ed. 1873. _d._
3 Kensington gardens square, London 20 April 1893.
M’PHUN, WILLIAM RAE. _b._ 1801; publisher at Glasgow; published
Mc Phun’s Glasgow magazine 1824; Mc Phun’s Guide through
Glasgow 1833, 4 ed. 1837; Mc Phun’s Catechism of phrenology,
34th thousand 1850; Mc Phun’s Catechism of useful knowledge 2
parts 1857–9; Twenty thousand geographical facts 1857, another
ed. 1885; Mc Phun’s New pocket lawyer 2 parts 1860–1. _d._
Greenpoint cottage, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 15 Sep. 1877.
_Bookseller_, _March 1877 p._ 216.
MACQUEEN, DONALD JOHN. Ensign 74 foot 14 July 1800, major 23
Oct. 1830, sold out 3 Oct. 1834; served in the Peninsula, Feb.
1810 to 1814, severely wounded several times; received silver
war medal with 9 clasps; K.H. 1835; barrack master at Dundee and
Perth some time; a military knight of Windsor about July 1865 to
death. _d._ Windsor castle 20 Jany. 1866 aged 79.
MACQUEEN, JAMES. _b._ Crawford, Lanarkshire 1778; manager of a
sugar plantation in Grenada, West Indies 1796 etc.; settled at
Glasgow 1821, became editor and part-proprietor of the Glasgow
Herald; projected and organised the Colonial bank and the
Royal mail steam packet company; settled in London, wrote in
newspapers and magazines; F.R.G.S.; author of A geographical
and commercial view of northern central Africa. Edinburgh 1821;
The West India colonies: the calumnies and misrepresentations
circulated against them examined and refuted 1824; General
statistics of the British empire 1836; A geographical survey of
Africa 1840; A new map of Africa 1841, the first map approaching
correctness. _d._ 10 Norton st. Kensington 14 May 1870. _Proc.
of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv_ 301–2 (1870).
M’QUEEN, JAMES (son of John M’Queen of Braxfield, _d._ 1837).
_b._ 1798; ensign 80 foot 31 March 1814, lieut. 1819; lieut. 3
light dragoons 9 Nov. 1820, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; lieut.
6 dragoons 16 May 1822; captain 4 light dragoons 26 March 1829;
major 15 light dragoons 18 June 1841, placed on h.p. 14 June
1842; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Tintoch house, Barton fields,
Canterbury 25 Nov. 1883.
MACQUEEN, JOHN FRASER (8 son of Donald Macqueen of Corrybrough,
Invernessshire, _d._ 1813). _b._ 1803; barrister L.I. 8 June
1838, bencher 13 March 1861 to death; sec. of the divorce
commission Jany. 1851, the first report was made 1853; official
reporter of Scottish and divorce appeals in the house of lords
1860; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1861; author of A practical treatise on the
appellate jurisdiction of the house of lords and privy council
1842; The rights and liabilities of husband and wife at law
and in equity 1848, 3 ed. 1885; Reports of Scotch appeals and
writs of error in the house of lords 1851–1865, 4 vols. 1855–66;
A practical treatise on divorce and matrimonial jurisdiction
under the act of 1857. 1858, 2 ed. 1860. _d._ 4 Upper Westbourne
terrace, Hyde park, London 6 Dec. 1881.
MACRAY, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1796; employed by Messrs. Treuttel
and Wurtz of Soho square, London, foreign booksellers; then
by John Henry Parker of Oxford; librarian of the Taylor
institution, Oxford 1847–71. _d._ Ducklington rectory,
Oxfordshire 13 Aug. 1878. _Bookseller 3 Sep. 1878 p._ 816.
MACREADY, CATHERINE FRANCES BIRCH (2 dau. of W. C. Macready
1793–1873). _b._ Elm place, Elstree, Herts. 21 July 1835, much
devoted to the poor at Cheltenham; author of Leaves from the
Olive mount 1860; Cowl and cap or the rival churches, and minor
poems 1865; Devotional lays 1868. _d._ and _bur._ at sea on
her voyage from Madeira to England 24 March 1869. _Macready’s
Reminiscences_, _i_ 425, _ii_ 445, 465, 467 (1875).
MACREADY, SARAH (dau. of Mr. Desmond). _b._ Newcastle 16 Feb.
1790; an actress at theatre royal, Bristol, where she played
Lady Macbeth, Hermione in the Winter’s Tale, Emilie in Othello,
the Widow Cheerly, Meg Merrilies, Helen Macgregor and queen
Elizabeth; (_m._ as his second wife William Macready manager
of the Bristol theatre and father of W. C. Macready. William
Macready _d._ Queen sq. Bristol 11 April 1829, _bur._ in the
cath.); lessee of Bristol theatre 1829 to death; lessee of Bath
theatre 2 Sep. 1845 to death; had a residence at Queen sq.
Bristol. _d._ at residence of her son in law J. H. Chute, Bath 8
March 1853. _bur._ Bristol cath. 14 March. _B. S. Penley’s Bath
stage_ (1892) 145–9; _The Bristol Mercury 12 March 1853 p._ 8.
MACREADY, WILLIAM CHARLES (son of William Macready _d._ 11 April
1829). _b._ Mary st. Tottenham court road, London 3 March 1793;
ed. at Rugby 1803–8; first appeared at Birmingham as Romeo 7
June 1810; his portrait by De Wilde exhibited at Royal academy,
London 1812; first appeared in London at Covent Garden as
Orestes in the Distressed mother 16 Sep. 1816; played Richard
III. at Covent Garden 25 Oct. 1819; the original in London of
S. Knowles’ Virginius 17 May 1820; starred at Covent Garden
1816–23 and at Drury Lane 1823–34; first appeared in America at
Park theatre, New York as Virginius 2 Oct. 1826; played Joseph
Surface in The school for scandal at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1832;
assaulted Alfred Bunn at Drury Lane theatre 29 April 1836 who
obtained sum of £150 damages in the Sheriff’s court 29 June
1836; lessee Covent Garden theatre 30 Sep. 1837 to 17 July 1839;
produced the Lady of Lyons, playing Claude Melnotte 15 Feb.
1838 and Richelieu 7 March 1839; elected member of Athenæum
club 21 June 1838; C. Dickens dedicated Nicholas Nickleby to
him 1839; played at Haymarket 16 March 1840 to 13 March 1841,
played Evelyn in Money 8 Dec. 1840 to 13 March 1841; manager
of Drury Lane theatre 27 Dec. 1841 to 14 June 1843; acted in
America 25 Sep. 1843 to 14 Oct. 1844, and in Paris, Dec. 1844
to Jany. 1845; in America again 4 Oct. 1848 to 10 May 1849 when
the great riot at Astor place theatre, New York took place;
made his last appearance on stage at Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851
as Macbeth, Samuel Phelps being the Macduff; a public reader
and lecturer; lived at 5 Clarence terrace, Regent’s park,
London 1840–50, at Sherborne house, Sherborne, Dorset 1850–60
and at Cheltenham 1860 to death; author of The poetical works
of Alexander Pope revised and arranged for young people 1849;
with J. S. Knowles produced The Bridal, a tragedy altered from
The Maid’s Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, Haymarket 26 June
1837; _m._ (1) 24 June 1824 Catherine Frances Atkins actress
_b._ 11 Nov. 1806, _d._ Plymouth 18 Sep. 1852; _m._ (2) 3 April
1860 Cecile Louise Frederica (5 dau. of Henry Spencer). _d._ 6
Wellington sq. Cheltenham 27 April 1873. _bur._ Kensal green
4 May. _Sir F. Pollock’s Macready’s Reminiscences_ 2 _vols._
(1875), 4 _portraits_; _Juliet Pollock’s Macready as I knew him_
(1884); _W. Marston’s Our recent actors_, _i_ 25–109 (1888);
_G. Sharf’s Recollections of scenic effects at Covent Garden_
(1839); _T. Marshall’s Lives of the most celebrated actors_
(1847) 1–36; _A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets_ (1884) 36–9;
_J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_, _ii_ 215–36 (1841);
_R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 104–28 (1844);
_Metropolitan Mag. xvii_ 81–5 (1836); _Tallis’s Dramatic Mag._
(1851) 148, 229–34, 3 _portraits_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table
book parts_ 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18 _and_ 21, 8 _portraits_.
MACREDIE, PATRICK BOYLE MURE (son of Thomas Mure). _b._
Warriston near Edinb. 28 Sep. 1800; ed. Edinb. univ.; an
advocate Edinb. 1822 to death; took the name of Macredie 1835;
engaged in the Dreghorn parish presentation case 1830–4; F.R.S.
Edinb.; an elder in the General assembly 1832; joined the Free
church 1843; carried on mines and fire clay works and built
improved dwellings for his workmen. _d._ Edinburgh 15 April
1868. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 377–82.
MACROBIN, JOHN. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1826; M.D. Edinb. 1827;
professor of medicine in Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen
1839 to 15 Sep. 1860, emeritus professor 1860 to death;
represented univ. of Aberdeen on general medical council 19 Dec.
1868 to 19 Oct. 1873; author of An introduction to the study of
practical medicine 1835. _d._ Aberdeen 4 Jany. 1879.
MACROSSAN, JOHN MURTAGH (son of a farmer). _b._ Donegal 1832;
went to Australia 1853; on the gold fields of Victoria, New
Zealand, New South Wales and Queensland 1853–73; chosen member
for the Kennedy electorate to the legislative assembly by the
miners of Charters Town, Queensland 1873; sec. for public works
and mines 21 Jany. 1879 to 13 March 1883, and 13 June 1888
with additional office of colonial sec. Jany. 1890, retired
Aug. 1890; member for Townsville 1888 to death; a delegate for
Queensland to Australian federation convention in Sydney 1891.
_d._ Sydney, N.S.W. 30 March 1891; the Queensland parliament
voted £2000 to his widow.
MC SHERRY, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1816; lieut. 15 Bengal
N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; captain 30 N.I. 12 May 1827, major 1 Dec. 1839
to 1845; lieut.-col. of 30 N.I. 1846–47, of 1 N.I. 1847–55,
brevet col. 20 June 1854. _d._ 1856.
MC TAGGART, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (1 son of John Mc Taggart of
Ardwell, Stranraer, Wigtonshire). _b._ Wigtonshire 15 March
1789; a merchant in London; contested Wigton 1832; M.P. Wigton
district of burghs 1835–57; created a baronet 23 Aug. 1841. _d._
Ardwell 13 Aug. 1867. _G.M. iv_ 392 (1867).
MC TAVISH, CHARLES CARROLL (son of Charles Mc Tavish). _b._ U.S.
of America; M.P. Dundalk 6 Aug. 1847, unseated on petition 20
March 1848; governor of Rupert’s Land, Canada. _d._ Liverpool
3 days after his return 23 July 1870. _Appleton’s Annual
Cyclopædia for 1870_, _x_ 592 (1873).
MACTIER, WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1810; major 4 Bengal light
cavalry 12 Jany. 1842 to 6 Sep. 1851; lieut.-col. 1 Bengal light
cavalry 6 Sep. 1851 to 1853; lieut.-col. 2 Bengal light cavalry
1853 to death; colonel in the army 20 June 1854; C.B. 3 April
1846. _d._ Juanpore, Bengal 17 Sep. 1855.
MACVICAR, JOHN GIBSON (2 son of Patrick Macvicar, minister of
St. Paul’s, Dundee). _b._ Dundee 16 March 1800; ed. at univs.
of St. Andrews and Edinb.; licensed as a preacher by presbytery
of Dundee; lecturer in natural history at St. Andrew’s univ.
1827–31 when he became professor; assistant to Dr. Candlish in
St. George’s parish, Edinb.; pastor of a branch of the Scottish
church in Ceylon 1839–52; minister of Moffat, Dumfriesshire,
July 1853 to death; edited the Quarterly journal of agriculture
1828; author of Elements of the economy of nature 1830, 2 ed.
1856; On the beautiful, the picturesque and the sublime 1837,
reproduced as The philosophy of the beautiful 1855; An enquiry
into human nature 1853. _d._ the manse of Moffat 12 Feb. 1884.
MC WHINNIE, ANDREW MELVILLE. _b._ south of England 1808;
M.R.C.S. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1843; lecturer on comparative anatomy at
St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1839–60 and assist. surgeon
1854–60; translated J. G. Cloquet’s Anatomical description of
the parts concerned in inguinal and femoral hernia 1835; author
of Malformation of the bladder 1854; and with T. Wormald of
A series of anatomical sketches 1838. _d._ The Crescent, New
Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 27 Feb. 1866.
MC WILLIAM, JAMES ORMISTON. _b._ Dalkeith, Scotland 1808; L.C.S.
Edinb. 1827; assistant surgeon in the navy 1829; surgeon to
the Scout on west coast of Africa 1836–9; M.D. Edinb. 1840;
senior surgeon to the Albert which left England 12 May 1841 and
entered the Niger 13 Aug., a malignant fever broke out 4 Sep.,
the Albert turned back 4 Oct. and reached England 19 Nov.; sent
on a special mission to Cape de Verde Islands 1844 to inquire
into origin of yellow fever at Boa Vista; medical officer to
the Custom House 1847 to death; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; C.B. 6 Sep.
1858; member of Epidemiological Soc., secretary several years;
presented with a service of plate by naval medical officers
1858; author of Medical history of the expedition to the Niger
1843; Dr. Mc William’s remarks on Dr. Gilbert King’s Report
on the fever at Boa Vista 1848; Exposition of the case of the
assistant surgeons of the royal navy 3 ed. 1850. _d._ 14
Trinity sq. Tower hill, London 4 May 1862. _bur._ Woking cemet.
10 May. _Proc. of royal soc. xii_ 59–61 (1863).
MADAN, GEORGE (5 son of Spencer Madan of Lichfield, Staffs.)
_b._ 1808; ed. Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1829–37,
B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; V. of Cam, Gloucs. 1838–52; V. of St. Mary
Redcliffe, Bristol 1852–65; hon. canon of Bristol 1851–8; R. of
Dursley 1865–87; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 1887 to death;
author of A few plain words on the use of the church burial
service for dissenters 1850; The question discussed, Are private
confession and priestly absolution chargeable with blasphemy and
profanity? 1859; and Letters and Sermons to his parishioners.
_d._ Bearland house, Gloucester 30 June 1891.
MADAN, SPENCER (eld. son of Spencer Madan, rector of Ibstock,
Leics., canon of Lichfield 1812). _b._ the Friary, Lichfield 6
Oct. 1791; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1812–25,
B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816; tutor to Duke of Richmond’s sons at
Brussels a year and a half; C. of Seale, Leics. 1816–24; canon
of Lichfield 4 Dec. 1817 to death; V. of Batheaston, Somerset
3 Oct. 1824 to death; V. of Twerton, Somerset 6 Oct. 1825 to
death; chaplain to the Sovereign 24 July 1830 to death. _d._
the Close, Lichfield 27 Aug. 1851. _bur._ west side of north
transept of Lichfield cathedral 3 Sep. _G.M. Jany. 1852 pp._
97–9.
MADDEN, DANIEL OWEN (only son of Owen Madden of Cork, merchant).
_b._ Mallow 1815; student of the Inner Temple, London; settled
in London in connection with The Press newspaper 1842; called
himself D. O. Maddyn; author of Ireland and its rulers since
1829. 3 parts anon. 1843–4, 2 ed. 1845; The age of Pitt and
Fox 1846; Wynville, or clubs and coteries, a novel 3 vols.
1852; Revelations of Ireland in the past generation 1848; The
speeches of H. Grattan 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The game of brag or the
Batterary boys, a comic novel 2 vols. 1853; The Mildmayes, or
the clergyman’s secret. By Danby North 1856; Chiefs of parties,
past and present 2 vols. 1859; and with T. Davis, The life of J.
P. Curran and a memoir of H. Grattan 1846. _d._ Dublin 6 Aug.
1859. _bur._ Upper Shandon, Cork 9 Aug. _The Athenæum_, _ii_
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.