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 MADDOCK, SIR THOMAS HERBERT (1790–1870)

I.C.S. : son of Rev. Thomas Maddock : born 1790 : educated at Manchester Free Grammar School and at Haileybury, 1812–3 : went out to India, 1814 : served in the Sagar and Nerbudda territories : Political Agent at Bhopal : Political Resident at Lucknow, 1829–31 : Political Officer in Nipal, 1831 : Secretary to the Government of India in the Legal, Judicial and Revenue Departments, 1838–43 : Member of the Supreme Council, 1843–9, Deputy-Governor of Bengal in 1845 and 1848 : knighted and C.B. : retired, 1849 : M.P. for Rochester, 1852–7 : died Jan. 15, 1870.

MADEC, RENE (1736–1784)

Born at Quimper in Brittany, Feb. 7, 1736, of poor parents : began life as a sailor : in 1748 went out to India as a recruit in the service of the French E.I. Co. : soon wearied of this : deserted, and joined the French troops at Pondicherry : taken prisoner by the English at Jinji, on the Coromandel coast : consented, with many of his companions, to serve in the English Army in Bengal : after several years a mutiny among the troops afforded them a chance of escape : Madec was chosen captain by his comrades; gradually collected a body of troops, both Frenchmen and Sepoys, and from 1765 to 1777 pursued a brilliant career as a guerilla leader and adventurer : served thus under various native princes, but always under the French flag, and never losing sight of the interests of his country in India : was in the service of Shuja-ud-daula, Nawab of Oudh, till his defeat by the English at Baxar, when he passed over to the Jats : took service in 1772 under the Mogul Emperor : performed many brave deeds and was granted many honours : made a Nawab of the first class. After the siege of Delhi by the united forces of the Mahrattas and the Jats, and the defeat of the Emperor, Madec rejoined his countrymen at Pondicherry, and took part in its defence against the English : after its capitulation he left India (1778), returned to France, where he died, worn out by all his many hardships, in 1784.

'''MAHMUDABAD, RAJA SIR MUHAMMAD AMIR HASAN KHAN. KHAN BAHADUR. KHANZADA OF''' (1849–1902)

A Siddiki Sheikh of a famous old Oudh family : son of Nawab Ali Khan, a younger brother of Ibad Ali Khan, Raja of Paintipur : adopted son of Musahib Ali Khan of Mahmudabad : the father, Nawab Ali Khan, died in 1858, while the son was a minor : educated at the Sitapur talukdars' school, afterwards at the Benares and Canning (Lucknow) Colleges : at Lord Lawrence's darbar at Lucknow, he was presented with a sword : elected, 1871, Vice-President of the British Indian Association in Oudh, an Hon. Magistrate and Hony. Munsif and a member of the Legislative Council, N.W.P. In 1877 he obtained recognition of the hereditary title of Raja : made, in 1883, Khan Bahadur : this title was made hereditary in 1884 : his other honorific titles were granted in 1871, in recognition of his public services : K.C.I.E.

MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (1822–1888)

Son of Dr. James Maine : born Aug. 15, 1822 : educated at Christ's Hospital, London, and Pembroke College, Cambridge : Exhibitioner and Scholar : Craven Scholar : Chancellor's English verse, 1842 : Senior Classic in 1844 : Tutor at Trinity Hall, 1845–7 : Regius Professor of Civil Law, 1847–54, called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn and the Middle Temple, 1850 : Reader in Roman Law and Jurisprudence at the Inns of Court, 1852 : one of the principal writers in the Saturday Review from 1855 : published his Ancient Law in 1861 : became Legal Member of the Supreme Council in India from Nov. 12, 1862, to Oct. 9, 1869: Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University for 4 years : Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence, 1871–78 : published Village Communities, 1871 : K.C.S.I., 1871 : and Member of the Council of India, 1871–88: published EarlyHistory of Institutions, 1875 : Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1877–88 : published Dissertations on Early Law and Custom, 1883, and Popular Government in 1885 : and wrote for the St. James's Gazette : also on "India" in The Reign of Queen Victoria : became Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge, 1887 : died at