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.