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.