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.