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Author: Maule, John

Biography:

MAULE, John (1781-1842: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 8 June 1781 and baptised on 10 June at St. Martin’s, Leicester, one of fourteen children of John Maule, MD, surgeon at the General Infirmary, and his wife Ann Pepper, who had married at Greenwich in 1776. Details of his training are not known but it was probably in Leicester. From 1811 until his death he was a surgeon in the Wiltshire Militia. He married Catherine Butler on 10 Nov. 1812 at Christ Church, Liverpool. They went on to have thirteen children. He died on 17 July 1842 at Marlborough, Wiltshire, and was buried at St. Mary’s. His widow applied for a military pension. He appears to have been a deeply religious man with both the works listed here revealing such intense passions that the Monthly Review (Sept. 1832, 120-5) thought he might be belong to a sect and found the combination of an admiration of Byron and religious fervour distinctly odd. (ancestry.co.uk 19 May 2022; Medical Register for the Year 1783 [1783], 85; Reading Mercury 23 July 1842; Wiltshire Family History Society Monumental Inscriptions) AA

 

Books written (2):

Marlborough: W. W. Lucy, 1827
London/ [Leicester]: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., and James Nesbitt/ printed by [Thomas Combe and Son], 1832