Thomas Maude

Thomas Maude (1801–1865) was an English clergyman, writer and poet.^[1][2]

Life

He was the son of Thomas Maude (1770–1831) of Newcastle upon Tyne, a partner in the Tyne Bank, and his wife Jane Roxby, daughter of Henry Roxby of Clapham Rise and niece of Sir James Sanderson, 1st Baronet.^[3][4] He was a student at University College, Oxford, matriculating in 1819 at age 17. He graduated B.A. in 1822, M.A. in 1827, and entered the Inner Temple in 1826.^[5]

Maude was ordained deacon in 1834, and priest in 1835. He was assistant curate at Birmingham St Thomas in 1834, and curate at St Paul Covent Garden in 1835. He was presented to the rectory of Elvington, City of York in 1841.^[1][6]

Works

Maude published:^[7]

• A Legend of Ravenswood and other Poems, 1823;
• Monody on the Death of Lord Byron, 1824;^[8]
• The Memorial and other Poems, 1824;
• Letter to a Member of the New Opposition, 1827;
• An Apology for the System of Public and Classical Education, 1828: "away then with the drivelling cant and trash talked against our ancient classical institutions".^[9]
• The Traveller's Lay, 1830, poem;
• The Schoolboy, 1836, poem; and
• Five Sermons, 1839–1847.
• Speculum: a Byronic satire on some residents of the city of Durham, published 1969^[10]

As a poet, his name was coupled in the Fraserian Papers with those of Edwin Atherstone, Edward Ball and Robert Montgomery.^[11]

Family

Maude married Elizabeth Stewart Hay, in 1835. The daughter of David Stewart Hay of Perth, Scotland, she was the niece of James Laing of Dominica, and counter-claimant under his will.^[12][13][14]

Notes

1. Crockford's Clerical Directory. Oxford University Press. 1865. p. 427.
2. John Burke (1846). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland: M to Z. Henry Colburn. p. 847.
3. John Burke (1835). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Colburn. p. 90.
4. Phillips, Maberly (1894). "A History of Banks, Bankers and Banking in Northumberland, Durham, and North Yorkshire". Internet Archive. London: Effingham. p. 161. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
5. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Maude, Thomas (1)
6. "CCED: Person Display Maude, Thomas". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
7. "Biography: Anonymous on Rev. Thomas Maude, spenserians.cath.vt.edu". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
8. Thomas Maude (Rector of Elvington.) (1824). Monody on the Death of Lord Byron.
9. Edmund Richardson (7 February 2013). Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity. Cambridge University Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-1-107-02677-3.
10. Thomas Maude (1969). Speculum: a Byronic satire on some residents of the city of Durham. North Gate P.
11. Maginn, William (1857). "The Fraserian Papers of the Late William Maginn, LL. D.: Annotated, with a Life of the Author". Internet Archive. New York: Redfield. pp. 65–6. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
12. "Marriages". Lancaster Gazette. 23 May 1835. p. 3. Retrieved 23 May 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
13. "Elizabeth Stewart Maude, Summary of Individual, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". Retrieved 23 May 2016.
14. "Dominica 320A & B (Macouchorie?)), Details of Claim, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". Retrieved 23 May 2016.