Author: MAJENDIE, William Henry
Biography:
MAJENDIE, William Henry (1789-1824: PBI)
He was born on 28 July 1789 and baptised on 2 Aug. at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, the eldest of thirteen children of the Rev. Henry William Majendie, later Bishop of Bangor, and his wife Ann Routledge. He was educated at Eton and then joined the Grenadier Guards. He went to Bengal in 1807 as aide-de-camp to General Hewitt who was Commander-in-Chief (1807-1811). After his return to England, he married Elizabeth Mary Marsden (1795-1830) on 21 Sept. 1820, at St. James, Piccadilly. They went on to have three daughters. He died, probably from consumption (decline), on 7 Feb. 1824 at Hinds Street, Manchester Square, London, but was buried at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, on Feb. 13. It seems to have been a widely held view in India that he was the author of Calcutta (1811). (PBI 1:97-101; Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register Jan. 1816, 46-8; Morning Post 22 Sept. 1820; Sun [London] 10 Feb. 1824; GM Mar. 1824, 284; Memorial Tablet, St. Peter and St. Paul, Shiplake, Oxfordshire) AA