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.