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1891 p._ 854, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 June 1891 p._ 832, _portrait_. MAHON, MATTHEW. Ensign 16 foot 31 Dec. 1789, major 28 Nov. 1805; major royal York rangers 11 Aug. 1808, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1812 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p. on his corps being disbanded; M.G. 28 June 1838. _d._ Brighton 18 March 1851. MAHONY, FRANCIS SYLVESTER (2 son of Martin Mahony of Blarney, woollen manufacturer). _b._ Cork 1804; ed. at Jesuits’ seminary in Rue de Sèvres, Paris, and the Jesuits’ college at Rome; prefect of studies at the Jesuits’ college at Clongoweswood, co. Kildare, Aug. 1830, master of rhetoric Oct. to Nov. 1830; ceased to be a Jesuit 1830; attended theological lectures at Rome 1830–2, ordained priest 1832; a missioner at Cork 1832–3; contributed Reliques of Father Prout to Fraser’s Mag. 1834–6, many poems to Bentley’s Miscellany 1837, and became known as Father Prout; travelled in Hungary, Greece and Asia Minor 1838–41; correspondent for the Daily News at Rome 1846–7; lived in Paris 1848 to death where he was correspondent for The Globe 1858 to death; author of The tour of De La Boullaye Le Gouz in Ireland 1837; The reliques of Father Prout 1870; The final reliques of Father Prout 1876; The works of Father Prout (1881), memoir pp. vii–xxxix, portrait. _d._ at his hotel in the Rue des Moulins, Paris 18 May 1866. _bur._ in vaults of Shandon church, Cork. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 463–88, _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers_ (1885) 91–4; _S. C. Hall’s A book of memories 2 ed._ (1877) 238; _Dublin Univ. mag. xxx_ 442–52 (1847) _signed Morgan Rattler_; _I.L.N. xlix_ 137 (1866), _portrait_. 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.