MATURIN, William (brother of preceding). b. Dublin 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1866; C. of a church in Dublin; P.C. of All Saints, Grangegorman, Dublin 1844 to death; librarian in archbishop Marsh’s library, Dublin about 1860; author of Six lectures on the events of holy week. Oxford 1860; The blessedness of the dead in Christ, sermons 1888. d. Alma house, Monkstown 30 June 1887. bur. All Saints’ ch. Grangegorman 4 July.
MAUDE, Daniel (3 son of Francis Maude of Hatfield hall, Yorkshire 1768–1842, recorder of Doncaster). b. 1801; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., fellow 1825–38; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister G.I. 25 Nov. 1829; stipendiary magistrate for Manchester 19 March 1838 to April 1860; presented at town hall, Manchester, with a time piece and five pieces of silver plate value about £400 by his fellow justices 5 July 1860; stipendiary magistrate at Greenwich police court, April 1860 to 4 Feb. 1874. d. 1874. J. Foster’s Yorkshire pedigrees, Maude of Alverthorpe (1874).
MAUDE, Francis (5 son of 1 viscount Hawarden 1729–1803). b. 17 Nov. 1798; naval cadet 20 Nov. 1811; lieut. 7 Oct. 1820, commander 30 April 1827; retired captain 1 April 1856; joined the Naval and military Bible soc. 1834; treasurer of Church missionary soc.; an original member of The shipwrecked fishermen and mariners’ royal benevolent soc. 1839; hon. sec. of Royal naval female school 1840; vice pres. Dreadnought seamen’s hospital board 1837. d. 9 Onslow sq. London 22 Oct. 1886. The Shipwrecked Mariner, xxx 21–30 (1883).
MAUDE, Frederic Philip (son of John Gervaise Maude of Great George st. Westminster). b. London 1818; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847; author with C. E. Pollock of A compendium of the law of merchant shipping 1853, 3 ed. 1864; edited J. W. Smith’s The law of landlord and tenant 1855, 2 ed. 1866; edited with T. E. Chitty, J. W. Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various branches of the law 5 ed. 1862, 8 ed. 1879. d. 44 St. George’s road, Pimlico, London 13 June 1870. Law Times, xlix 158 (1870).
MAUDSLAY, Joseph (3 son of Henry Maudslay, engineer 1771–1831). b. London 17 Sep. 1801; joined his father’s engineering business at Lambeth; patented an oscillating engine in which the slide valves were worked by an eccentric 1827; M.I.C.E. 1833; patented with Joshua Field 1839 a double cylinder marine engine, extensively used; in 1841–2 his firm made the engines for the Rattler the first screw-steamer built for the admiralty; patented a feathering screw propeller 1848 and the direct-acting annular cylinder screw engine. d. 21 Hyde park sq. London 25 Sep. 1861. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi 562–9 (1862).
MAUDSLAY, Thomas Henry (brother of the preceding). b. 1792; member of his father’s firm (first in Margaret st. Cavendish sq., removed to Westminster bridge road 1810) which constructed the engines for ships of the royal navy during more than 25 years; took Joshua Field into partnership; gave evidence before select committee of house of commons on steam navigation 1831; made experiments with propellers, patented a feathering screw; purchased Banstead park estate, Surrey. d. Knight’s Hill, Norwood, Surrey 23 April 1864. bur. at Woolwich, personalty sworn under £250,000, 4 June 1864. Mechanics’ Mag. 29 April 1864 p. 282.
MAUGHAM, Robert. Articled to George Barrow of 34 Threadneedle st. London, attorney; solicitor in London 1817–57; one of founders of the Law Institution, Chancery lane, London, and secretary April 1825, it soon became the Law Society, secretary to his death, the building in Chancery lane was opened 28 June 1831 and the society was granted a royal charter 22 Dec. 1831 and a new charter 5 June 1845; established the Legal Observer or journal of jurisprudence Nov. 1830, edited it down to Dec. 1856 when it was merged in The Solicitors’ Journal which began 3 Jany. 1857; in 1856 a sum of more than £600 was collected for him by the members of the society, part of which was invested in a valuable piece of plate presented to him by the council 12 June 1856; published A treatise on principles of the usury laws 1824; The law of attornies, solicitors and agents 1825; A treatise on the law of literary property 1828; Outlines of criminal law, comprising public wrongs 1837; Outlines of the law of real property 1842. d. at the Incorporated law society, Chancery lane, London 16 July 1862. bur. Nunhead cemetery 22 July. Solicitors’ Journal, vi 727 (1862); Parliamentary report on legal education (1846) 158–68, portrait at Incorp. law soc.
Note.—His son Robert Ormond Maugham b. 1814, admitted solicitor 1846, solicitor to British embassy at Paris to his death, d. from cancer of the stomach at 25 Avenue d’ Antin, Paris 24 June 1884.
MAUGHAN, Thomas. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 6 Aug. 1826, major 22 Dec. 1849 to 28 Nov. 1854; commandant of Scinde baggage corps 14 April 1847 to 1852; sec. to military and naval departments of government 1853–6; lieut.-col. of 11 N.I. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1856; commanded Kolapore infantry corps 24 June 1856 to 1858; political agent Kolapore 24 June 1856 to 1858; lieut.-col. of 23 N.I. 1858–61, of 11 N.I. 1861 to death. d. Poona, Bombay 10 July 1861.
MAULE, Sir John Blossett (2 son of George Maule, barrister, solicitor to the treasury, d. 18 Wilton crescent, Belgrave sq. London 14 Nov. 1851). b. Kensington 29 May 1817; ed. at Westminster 1829–35 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1847, bencher 16 Nov. 1866 to death, treasurer 1882–3; recorder of Leeds, April 1861 to 1 Jany. 1880; Q.C. 26 June 1866; director of public prosecutions 1 Jany. 1880 to 14 Aug. 1884; knighted at Windsor castle 7 Dec. 1882; superintendent editor of R. Burn’s Justice of the Peace and parish officer 30 ed. 5 vols. in 10 vols. 1869. d. 47 Ennismore gardens, Kensington Gore, London 20 Oct. 1889. I.L.N. lxxxi 656 (1882) portrait, lxxxvii 425 (1889), portrait.