Modern English biography

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_. MAULE, LAUDERDALE (2 son of 1 baron Panmure 1771–1852). _b._ 25 March 1807; ensign 39 foot 24 Aug. 1825; captain 95 foot 1835; captain 79 foot 21 Aug. 1835, lieut. colonel 14 June 1842 to 24 Dec. 1852 when placed on h.p.; M.P. Forfarshire 16 July 1852 to death; surveyor general of the ordnance 15 Jany. 1853 to death. _d._ Constantinople 1 Aug. 1854. MAULE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (son of Henry Maule of Edmonton, Middlesex, surgeon). _b._ Edmonton 25 April 1788; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1806, fellow Oct. 1811 to 1820; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; barrister L.I. 20 May 1814, bencher 1835–9; went Oxford and Welsh circuits, led the circuits; K.C. April 1833; counsel to bank of England Jany. 1835; M.P. for borough of Carlow 1837–9; baron of court of exchequer 14 Feb. 1839; justice of court of common pleas 11 Nov. 1839 to 3 July 1855 when he resigned; knighted 1839; P.C. 21 July 1855; member of judicial committee of P.C. 21 July 1855 to death. _d._ 22 Hyde park gardens, London 16 Jany.