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Author: MAUDE, Thomas

Biography:

Maude, Thomas (1801-65: ancestry.co.uk)

The second son of Thomas Maude and his wife Jane Roxby, he was born on 12 May 1801 at Newcastle, Northumberland, and baptised there on 16 Jan. 1802. His parents had married at St. Magnus the Martyr, London, in Apr. 1796. Maude inherited from his grandfather, Henry Roxby, a prosperous London merchant, in 1820. He matriculated at University College, Oxford, in 1819, earning his BA in 1822 and his MA in 1827. He was ordained deacon in 1834 and priest in 1835, He was curate of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, until 1841 when he became the rector at Elvington, Yorkshire. He married Elizabeth Stewart Hay of Perth, Scotland, in London on 12 May 1835 and their eldest child, a son, was born there; they subsequently had two more children, a son and a daughter. He died at the Elvington rectory on 18 July 1865 and was buried in Holy Trinity churchyard; he left an estate of under £1000. Other publications are: Letter to a Member of the New Opposition (1827), An Apology for the System of Public and Classical Education (1828), and Five Sermons 1839-47. (ancestry.co.uk 14 Apr 2020, 7 Aug. 2023; CCEd 7 Aug. 2023; PROB 11/1627/243; Alumni Oxonienses)

 

Books written (4):

London: Hatchard and Son, 1823
London: Hatchard and Son, 1824
London/ Edinburgh: Hatchard and Son/ A. Constable, 1824
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830