MAHONY, Pierce. Member of firm of Pierce Mahony and Co. solicitors to the Alliance and four other insurance companies, at 22 and 23 William st. Dublin to 1849; M.P. Kinsale 7 Aug. 1837, unseated on petition 11 April 1838; agent for D. O’Connell 1829 and solicitor for him in 1844; clerk of the crown in court of queen’s bench, Ireland 1849 to death; author of the Leinster declaration of 1830, which stopped first agitation for repeal of the Union. d. 18 Feb. 1853. I.L.N. iv 41, 42 (1814), portrait.
MAHONY, Richard John (1 son of rev. Denis Mahony of Tralee, Kerry). b. Dromore castle 1827; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1849; sheriff of Kerry 1853; a practical agriculturalist, Dromore being a pattern estate; a kind and considerate landlord, all the press correspondents wrote about his lands, J. A. Froude was a visitor at Dromore, the land act confiscated his estate; author of The crime and penalty of ownership, and of several other pamphlets and of articles in Fraser’s Mag. d. 4 Philbeach gardens, London 22 Dec. 1892. bur. in family vault near Dromore castle 27 Dec. Times 28 Dec. 1892 p. 4.
MAIDEN, Joseph. b. close to Barrow churchyard, Shropshire 1795; whip to Mr. Whitmore at Albrighton 1809; second whip to sir Bellingham Graham; whip to sir Harry Goodricke and others at Sandway 1831–45; presented with a silver tankard and 250 sovereigns by the Cheshire hunt 1845; farmer and publican at Sandway Head 1845; huntsman to Mr. Davenport at Wolstanton 1845–64; had his left leg amputated Nov. 1855; presented by his master with a silver cup and 750 sovereigns 12 Dec. 1856. d. Sidway Mill farm near Market Drayton 20 Oct. 1864. bur. Maer. Sporting Review, xxxviii 383–7 (1857) portrait, lii 318, 392 (1864); The Post and the Paddock. By The Druid (1880) 313–18; Cecil’s Records of the chase (1877) 211–2.
Note.—The first picture in Mr. Facey Romford’s hounds [By R. S. Surtees] 1865 represents Maiden’s widow and children.
MAIDLOW, John Mott (2 son of William Maidlow of Sydenham, Kent). b. 1839; ed. King’s coll. sch. London and Queen’s coll. Oxf., taberdar 1857–62, fellow 1862–75; double first class 1861, B.A. 1861; Eldon law scholar 1864–7; barrister L.I. 11 June 1867; a leading junior in the Chancery division; author of Essay on the law of commons and open spaces and the rights of the public therein. Printed in Sir H. W. Peek’s Six essays on commons preservation 1867. d. 1 Cleveland terrace, Hyde park, London 26 Sep. 1893.
MAIDMENT, James (son of James Maidment, solicitor, Dowgate hill, London). b. London about 1795; called to Scottish bar 1817; much engaged in disputed peerage cases; a friend of sir Walter Scott; edited works for the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbotsford, and Hunterian clubs, and for the Spottiswoode society 1837–73; principal editor of Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits 2 vols. 1837; edited with W. H. Logan The dramatists of the restoration 14 vols. Edinburgh 1877; edited and wrote 63 works; the sale of his library in May 1880 lasted 15 days. d. Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1879. T. G. Stevenson’s Bibliography of Maidment (1883), portrait; Journal of jurisprudence, xxiii 601–3 (1879).
MAIN, David M. (son of a Scottish banker). b. 1847; edited A treasury of English sonnets, with notes and illustrations. Manchester 1879, 2 ed. London 1880; Three hundred English sonnets 1884. d. 1888.
MAIN, John Frederic. b. 1854 or 1855; ed. at Southsea diocesan gr. sch.; matric. at univ. of London, Jany. 1872; studied at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, 10th wrangler 1876; B.Sc. London 1876, D.Sc. 1877; lecturer in engineering, Univ. coll. Bristol; assistant professor of mechanics, Royal college of science South Kensington. d. Denver, Colorado 10 May 1892.
MAIN, Robert (son of Thomas Main). b. Upnor, Kent 12 July 1808; assistant master Bishop’s Waltham gr. sch., foundation scholar at Queen’s coll. Camb., fellow 1836–8; 6th wrangler 1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; at Pemb. coll. Oxf., M.A. 1860; chief assistant at royal observatory, Greenwich 1835–60; ordained 1836; F.R.A.S. 11 March 1836, member of council 1837–41 and 1861–76, secretary 1841–6, vice pres. 1856–9, president 1859–61, gold medallist 12 Feb. 1858; F.R.S. 7 June 1860, member of council 1875–7; Radcliffe observer at Oxford 19 June 1860 to death; author of Rudimentary astronomy 1852, 3 ed. 1882; Astronomical observations made at the Radcliffe observatory 1859 etc.; Twelve sermons preached at St. Mary’s, Greenwich 1860; Plain and spherical astronomy 1863. d. Radcliffe observatory, Oxford 9 May 1878. E. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 165–88; Nature 16 May 1878 pp. 72–3.
MAIN, Thomas. b. 1806; presbyterian minister Kilmarnock 1839–43; Free ch. minister Kilmarnock 1843–57; minister St. Mary’s, Edinb. 1857 to death; moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1880; D.D.; author of Speech on the Union question in the Free church presbytery of Edinburgh 1868. d. 7 Bellevue crescent, Edinburgh 28 May 1881. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1851) 55–62.