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 or An Historical Essay concerning the Cities, Towns, and Buroughs of England (1726); Antiquus Dialogus de Scaccario (1711); The same, translated in English by a gentleman of the Middle Temple (1758); Baronia Anglica, or An History of Land-Honours, etc. (1741). The collected works of Mr. Madox were published in 1736.

Admitted 16 November, 1838.

Eldest son of John Maguire of Cork, where he was born in 1815. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1843, but continued to work on the Cork Examiner, which he had established in 1841. In 1852 he was returned to Parliament for Dungarvon, and in 1865 for Cork, supporting measures in favour of tenant-right and the disestablishment of the Irish Church. He was an ardent Roman Catholic and supporter of Pope Pius IX., of whom and his pontificate he published an account in 1870. He died at Dublin 1 Nov. 1872.

Besides the work above referred to and various political pamphlets, he wrote a Life of Father Mathew (1863); a Novel entitled The Next Generation (1871), and a volume of Fairy Tales, Young Prince Marigold (1873).

Admitted 20 October, 1871.

Eldest son of (q.v.). He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar 30 April, 1875. In 1880 he was appointed Secretary to the British Auxiliary Mission on Judicial Reform in Egypt, and to the British delegates to the International Judicial Commission. He died 11 June, 1888, surviving his father only a few months.

Admitted 4 October, 1862.

Eldest son of James Maine, M.D., of Kelso, Roxburgh, born in India 15 Aug. 1822. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, where he exhibited great promise, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he obtained great distinction, being the "best classical scholar of his year." In 1847 he became Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University, and when the Inns of Court established Readerships in 1852, he was appointed Reader in Roman Law and Jurisprudence. Previous to his admission to the Middle Temple he had kept his terms at Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the Bar in 1850. In the year of his admission to the Middle Temple he left for India as Legal Member of the Indian Council, which post he held for seven years, during which he displayed great industry and ability in framing and directing the legislation of that country. On his return he was appointed Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, and on 21 Nov. 1873, elected a Bencher of Middle Temple, and Reader in 1881. He died at Cannes. 3 Feb. 1888, leaving behind him many works on law and jurisprudence, which are considered models of investigation on the subjects of which they treat.

The best known are his treatise on Ancient Law (1861); Village Communities (1871); Early History of Institutions (1875); Early Law and Custom (1883); and Lectures on International Law (1888)—works which have been frequently translated and republished.